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Vernon Ollar was born in July 1926 in Moline, Illinois and grew up in nearby Rock Island, Illinois as an only child....

They [Annotator's Note: Vernon Tweedt's family] had a Philco radio. When he heard the news [Annotator's Note: of the...

Chester David was born in March 1924 in Lacassine, Louisiana. He was the youngest of one brother and two sisters and...

A German officer who could speak English took Joseph O'Donnell into a barn. The officer started asking him questions....

William Leo Spaetgens and his Navy crewmates aboard the SS Leslie M. Shaw (MC-0440) converted their Liberty Ship to a...

When it was time to go back to the United States, Francis Resta was sent to a tent city at LeHavre, France to wait for...

One morning around 1 May 1945, Paul Bosworth woke up to the smell of coffee which was unusual. He woke up Byron [...

Maurice Hackler recalled having been sent to Czechoslovakia, but they could only do visual bombing in that country....

Fred Whitaker was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in July 1925. He had one sister. He enlisted on 17 June 1943. He...

Lynn Compoton had just played football against USC when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Compton woke up to hearing people talk...

By daylight, combat started again. Mark Gordon Hazard, Jr. and Swaney [Annotator's Note: Arthur Swanson from Boston,...

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