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[Annotator’s Note: There is a beeping sound throughout the segment.] Joel Arnold was assigned to a meteorological unit...

Larris Duhon was assigned to the 300th Engineer Combat Battalion and was sent overseas to Europe from Camp Shanks [...

A.C. Thomas thought the German soldiers were too young. Most of them were teenagers. He was in Germany when the war...

Philip Schmidt used the G.I. Bill to get an education. He went to Saint Paul, Minnesota and found tons of G.I.s looking...

Norman Johnson was born on Staten Island, New York on 16 January 1925. His father was an electrician. In the afternoons...

Melvin Dahlberg's first time abroad was in Italy which was very rundown. The local people were begging for food. He...

Tom Quigley recalls how when they were approaching Brest, he saw a soldier who was directing traffic get hit by an 88...

William Burrus was drafted [Annotator's Note: in the spring of 1943] and went to Fort McClellan, Alabama for induction...

The rains came while Charles R. Smith and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 417th...

Surrendering was not something Morton Brooks wanted to do, but after he was captured, he was held in a barn with other...

Mancel Kirk survived the war well. He did not get shell shock like some others did. The worst thing he suffered was the...

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