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George Kays had completed five years of service and had a wife and child at home. He was sent a telegram in Germany...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was aboard USS LST-502 for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944.] What...

Arthur Spaulding and his squad [Annotator's Note: in 2nd Platoon, Company B, 91st Chemical Mortar Battalion] were...

Leroy "Lee" Solice decided to reenlist because he did not have other options, and he enjoyed his time in the Army. He...

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

Francis Neilson was born in October 1925 in Tacoma, Washington. His parents divorced when he was a toddler, and his...

Burt Richard Sadler turned 15 years old in 1940. Not long after, he started experiencing German bombing raids. Sadler...

Before he got to Saint-Lo [Annotator's Note: Battle of Saint-Lô, 7 to 19 July 1944; Saint-Lô, France], Frank Forcinella...

Gerhard Franzky remembers the most important thing after Hitler came to power was that the school schedule changed....

Vernon Tweedt does not recall where he was when a trainload of people came through the town. They were packed like...

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

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