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Donald Strait was born in April 1918 in East Orange, New Jersey, and spent his first five years in Montclair, New...

Charles White was in the United States training troops. The last outfit he was training was sent over to England. After...

Judah Samet was a willing fighter in the Israeli Defense Force. Jews have been warriors since the time of Abraham. The...

After the surrender of Japan, Erico J. Catalano became a buck sergeant [Annotator's Note: the lowest rank of sergeant...

George W. Bachmann, Junior had never left his hometown of Akron [Annotator's Note: Akron, Ohio] before joining the Army...

After the war ended, Ralph Sykes volunteered to work in the supply section. After a couple of days, Sykes was promoted...

Elmer Knudsen's first combat was at Fort Driant, about a week after he got off the boat in France. It took him about a...

Joseph Lesniewski had no problems with his first jumps. He told his sister that when he made the jumps, he would take a...

Basil C. Hoehn had never seen the ocean before he went overseas. His unit [Annotator's Note: 91st Chemical Mortar...

Kenneth Beckman's first mission [Annotator's Note: Beckman was a navigator in the 366th Bombardment Squadron, 305th...

Loevsky was taken to a German headquarters and was marched through the streets of Berlin past angry crowds. He could...

On Vernon Schmidt's tenth day in combat [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 358th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry...

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