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Adolph Edward Asher was in training as a soldier when he heard about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

[Annotator's Note: Coughing can be heard throughout this segment.] In November 1944, Allen Porter [Annotator's Note: in...

A typical mission for John Luckadoo started by him being woken up between three and half past three in the morning,...

[Annotator's Note: William Nesser served aboard the SS Kalliopi, and was returning to the United States from England.]...

Richard "Dick" Willhour was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in December 1924. He had a younger brother who served in the Air...

Robert "Bob" Lowry went to Great Lakes [Annotator's Note: Naval Station Great Lakes, North Chicago, Illinois] for boot...

Capers Andrews Holmes, Jr. was born in Culloden, Georgia. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great...

[Annotator's Note: John K. Ward went overseas with the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division on 16...

Battle Malone Barksdale was the operations officer for his group [Annotator's Note: the 635th Field Artillery Battalion...

Paul Hissey remembered flying over German towns that had been bombed while he was serving on occupation duty. He...

Lloyd Geist recalls that during the Battle of Saint-Lo [Annotator's Note: Saint-Lô, France] he was sitting in his...

After Sicily, Floyd Dumas went to Salerno. The fighting there was not much different than it had been in Sicily except...

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