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James Cockrell was born in Alabama in December 1924. He grew up where his parents had grown up. When he was young, they...

John Raaen saw an unbelievable number of ships on the morning of D-Day. There were thousands of ships all spaced apart...

One day, Mort Walker heard on the radio that the war was over so he arranged for a train to take all of the Germans,...

Cosmo Uttero and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry...

After basic training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Ralph Osterhoudt Sr. was sent by train to Baltimore, Maryland and...

After induction into the Army, Norris Waddill went to Camp Crowder, Missouri for his basic training. Basic training was...

When Robert W. "Doby" Gibson got out of the service in 1946, he reenlisted for three more years. He was not sent to the...

Neil Cox was born in Florala, Alabama in September 1925. He had two brothers and one sister. They lived on a farm. They...

There were two black soldiers at the door yelling that the Germans were coming. Lyle Bouck and Kriz [Annotators Note:...

The company [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division]...

Paul Wilson had moved to north Oklahoma City [Annotator's Note: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma] when Pearl Harbor happened [...

In 1949, Herbert W. Ridyard took a job with NACA, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which was the forerunner...

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