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Oscar Otto Martin remembered that on his first day in combat, they were scheduled to attack at two in the afternoon,...

Earl Forstall is from New Orleans, Louisiana. He was studying mechanical engineering at Tulane University when the war...

Gale Ammerman had trained at the Alliance Army Airfield in Nebraska. He was only there a few weeks then went to North...

Kenneth J. Hanson [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 410th Infantry Regiment, 103rd Infantry Division] saw combat in...

Emory Maurice Ornelles was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in September 1922. He lived in Waikiki two blocks from the beach...

On 31 May 1944, Frank Jasicko [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 781st Bombardment Squadron, 465th Bombardment Group,...

William Pena remembers how readjusting to life with his crippling injury was very difficult. Life without part of his...

Donald Albert Carlson enlisted in the Army Air Force [Annotator's Note: in September 1942]. He got on a train from Penn...

Robert J. "Bob" Goebel says the P-39 [Annotator's Note: Bell P-39 Airacobra fighter aircraft] had a bad reputation. It...

Edward Dunne's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS LST-53] had a big ramp that the tanks would go off of. There were six...

Joel Urice flew his seventh mission in Germany below Berlin [Annotator’s Note: Berlin, Germany]. They experienced a lot...

George Shenkle [Annotator's Note: serving with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] was...

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