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Richard Duchossois was born in October of 1921 in Chicago. His whole family lived, and still lives, in Chicago....

The day Kenneth H. Bailey got his draft notice [Annotator's Note: 4 November 1942] was a very bad day. He knew it was...

In 1946, Walter McNeely was shipped from Europe to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. He and a friend bought some bananas and...

Lynn Compton remembers going through Carentan without any resistance. When the bullets started coming the men were...

Robert Andry was discharged from the Army in August 1945. He was told he would be able to go on leave [Annotator's Note...

When Bill Schwartz returned home from his service in Europe, he was amazed to see how old his parents were. He later...

John Singlaub completed his mission with the French resistance in France. His proposal for a mission to organize French...

Cecil J. V. Newton fought with the 345th Infantry Regiment, 87th Infantry Division in Koblenz, Germany in March 1945....

Joseph Lesniewski and Ed [Annotator's Note: Private Edward J. Joint] took off and were looking for more people. It took...

The rest of it [Annotators Note: of art found underground by Ettlinger], the 97%, were returned to their German owners...

Josephine Pescatore got to the evacuation hospital with nothing but a small handbag. She had no supplies like a mess...

All that Robert S. Rugeley and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 285th Signal Pigeon Company] knew was that racing pigeons...

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