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Fred Arthur Balfour was told to find his own way on board [Annotator's Note: after the war ended and arriving at his...

Byron Othello Wilkins made sergeant on 3 December [Annotators Note: 3 December 1944] and met the new captain around...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. flew as a bombardier aboard B-29s [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy...

Robert L. Williams was born in Covington, Kentucky in 1922 and raised in Park Hills. His life was fairly boring until...

Lynn Compton does not remember when he went back to Normandy for the first time but realized war is fought on normal...

Edwin Slomka was shipped overseas on the Aquitania [Annotator's Note: RMS Aquitania], which was turned into a troopship...

Kenneth F. Thomas reported to Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia for induction [Annotator's Note: he had been drafted into the...

After the war ended in Europe, being transferred to the Pacific was kind of voluntary. Joseph Alter had made a...

George Grugett was born in McConnell, Tennessee which no longer exists. His father worked for the railroad. He moved...

Robert W. McDonald went to Fort Dix [Annotator's Note: now Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Trenton, New Jersey] for...

Bernard Peters lost his hearing completely in one ear so he had to get out of the service. He went to work for a...

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