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Garland Virgil Longhoffer turned 18 years old and became eligible for the draft in March 1944. He could have stayed out...

William Burkett served in the war because he did not have a choice. The United States had been attacked. There was no...

Real estate helped Paul Kerchum get over his war experience because it was very cutthroat. Sometimes he would have...

After being wounded, Richard Keller was evacuated to a field hospital [Annotator's Note: Keller was shot by a sniper...

Tenney joined the National Guard in November of 1940. He joined to get his year of service completed before the draft...

In November [Annotator's Note: November 1943], Donald Draxler was told he would be going into combat as a reserve...

After basic training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Curtis Winfred Wise went to Fort Rucker, Alabama to a new company...

Edward Riedl played baseball in the 1930s. His goal was to be a professional baseball player. New Orleans [Annotator's...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...

[Annotator's Note: After being wounded, George Alaniz was sent to Gainesville, Texas to recuperate.] Alaniz was...

When Alfred Dearman would come on duty for the morning shift as a jailer, the midnight shift would have had the...

When the 1st Calvary Division was preparing for the landing on Manus, John Smith was in the reconnaissance patrol sent...

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