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William Leo Spaetgens was born on a farm in Roberts Cove near Crowley, Louisiana in 1922. He had eight siblings but one...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Walker received his pilot wings on 25 June 1950, just after the Korean War started.] In...

Alex Carter Sr. went to Southern France. They used 50-cycle electricity. Carter met a girl that spoke perfect English....

Joseph Brannan returned to New York with the PT-305 and two other boats on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank...

Floyd Stahl stood watch with everybody else. He had a lot of different assignments. In the Atlantic [Annotator's Note:...

Around the time of the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes Counter Offensive...

Winfield Zerphey was based on the southern coast of England at Dunkeswell. The airmen lived in Quonset huts. They had...

Robert "Bob" Lowry had about 200 or 300 soldiers they [Annotator's Note: as crew on the USS LST-538 in Plymouth,...

Paul Rothenheber was born in September 1925 in Lorsch, Germany. He left Germany when he was two years old. His parents...

Edward Dunne's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS LST-53] had a big ramp that the tanks would go off of. There were six...

Joseph Hartmann was born in September 1925 in Patterson, New Jersey. He had two sisters that are younger. In the...

During his initial trip to London [Annotator's Note: London, England], Robert Fitz had his first experience with "buzz...

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