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Francis Bucher was born in October 1922 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His was a friendly neighborhood where everybody knew...

Kenneth Weiland was assigned to the 866th Aviation Engineer Battalion attached to the 8th Army. He was in A Company....

Philip Mayer was born in June 1925 in Hollister, California where his family had a ranch. In 1930, his family moved to...

[Annotator's Note: There is a person in the background moving about the room throughout this clip.] Once the war had...

Sterling Cale received several different military decorations. He received multiple Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star, and a...

Ervin Markwald [Annotator’s Note: drafted into the Army at age 18] did 17 weeks of basic training at Fort Riley, Kansas...

James Allen was at Midway aboard the Sperry [Annotator's Note: USS Sperry (AS-12)] when the Wahoo [Annotator's Note:...

On the morning of the battle, Vejtasa was flying CAP. Jimmy Flately and Johnny Leppla were flying escort for the...

When John Wicklund went for classification at Keesler Field [Annotator's Note: now Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi,...

Melvin C. Whitman thinks the servicemen who returned [Annotator's Note: from World War 2] were able to teach their kids...

Edgar Harrell was assigned to the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) [Annotator's Note: sometimes referred to as "Indy"] serving...

James N. Rizzo sailed overseas to the Pacific. He did not travel with his whole group [Annotator's Note: 553rd Air...

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