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Robert Swift is a big fan of the Indianapolis 500 which relates to his time in the military. Every year at the 500...

Samuel Lombardo and his regiment [Annotator's Note: Lombardo was a platoon leader and the executive officer of Company...

Paul Hilton Madden Jr. was born in Homer, Louisiana in June 1925 and grew up in Shreveport [Annotator’s Note:...

Getting captured was Jerome Fatora's most memorable experience of the war. He feels he was part of the greatest...

William Dabney did not have to take a test to be in the barrage balloon battalion. The instruction was cut and dry and...

Charles Acker went through live-fire training. They had a little town set up and they would fire live machine guns and...

Charles Scheffel was born in Eden, Oklahoma in 1919. His father was an illegal immigrant from Sweden and passed away...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Larson to talk about the instruments used in map making.] William...

Donald Beeghly did not see any massive movements of German prisoners. Beeghly has a document he received from the...

Paul Baughman jumped into Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944]...

Byron Othello Wilkins and other POWs worked in a nearby town called Euskirchen. They unloaded boxcars and one man found...

Bernard Hillenbrand fought in World War 2 because he is proud to be an American. When his grandfather immigrated to...

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