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Edward J. Manzi was drafted into the Army and sent to Camp Haan, California for basic training. He quickly learned to...

William Dabney and his fellow soldiers tried to enjoy themselves whenever they could. They would engage in activities...

Leo Terrebonne went to work in 1942 for Higgins Industries at the Industrial Canal Plant. He was out of school, and...

Jackson was born in Covina, California in 1924. He was a senior in high school on 7 December 1941 when Pearl Harbor was...

Henry Freedman received an additional month of training in England prior to shipping out to France. He moved across...

After Richard "Dick" Loges was discharged from service, he did not take advantage of the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note:...

Robert Guitard could tell we were no longer at war when women could buy silk stockings, and everyone could buy butter....

His expertise was not required for the invasion of Normandy [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6...

Joseph Lesniewski , Shifty Powers [Annotator's Note: Staff Sergeant Darrell C. "Shifty" Powers] and another guy were to...

Floyd Dumas had been in hiding in Italy for five months. One close encounter Dumas had with German soldiers was when he...

Philemon Andrews Saint Amant went to Washington [Annotator's Note: Washington, D.C.] and then went over to Africa [...

Robert Payne was in Pittsburg, Kansas in 1944 in flight training. It was a small town. What they were doing was well...

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