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Lawrence Brooks was drafted in 1940 and went for basic training at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. By November [Annotator's...

Armando Galella was born in January 1921 in New York, New York. When he was around four years old, he moved with his...

Robert Leroy Shirkey was selected to join the Alamo Scouts [Annotator's Note: 6th Army Special Reconnaissance Unit] in...

George A. Damiano was born in Riverside, California in 1924. He grew up in a little town called Murrieta, California...

Stanley Fagerstrom was a corporal going into an outfit that was already established in combat. He was attached to...

Richard Jaccarino said the war matured him, and he got a better perspective of people from diverse backgrounds. He made...

Peter "Pete" Behr [Annotator's Note: with Company B, 1st Battalion, 383rd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division]...

Michael Maziarczyk remembers the Navy starting the bombardment at four in the morning. They made a hospital on the...

Louis J. Armentaro thinks that maybe he could have gotten someone killed, but he had to have his sense of decency....

On Easter morning, 1 April 1945, Andrew Petrus [Annotator's Note: with Company G, 2nd Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment...

Mahlen P. Arledge was born in Dixie, Louisiana in 1924. As a young man in the Depression era, his father had oil wells...

Those with dysentery didn't live very long. Dehydration, lack of food, lack of water, the sickness, it was awful....

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