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Robert Harvey Heinly was born in February 1924 in Reading, Pennsylvania. He remembers using ink wells in school. The...

Samuel W. Smith wanted to join the Air Corps as an aviation cadet. In 1942, Smith convinced his mother to sign his...

Lorcey J. Sonnier began drinking too much after the war. He went back to farming when he returned home. He got married...

Alex Carter Sr. went to boot camp in Norfolk, Virginia. He wanted to go to Vicksburg, Mississippi for welding school,...

Louis Cardenas was put into the 36th Infantry Division. They learned how to dig foxholes and fire rifles. They would...

When the war was over, Leslie V. Freeman was pulled back to a rest area. They came up with the point system [Annotator'...

In all the time Wayne Peer spent overseas performing infiltration missions, the platoon [Annotator's Note: I...

Jack Sinise arrived in England in January 1944 [Annotator's Note: and joined the 379th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force...

Each crew had a tent to themselves. In the 483rd Group [Annotators Note: Bombardment group] there were about 20 tents....

[Annotator’s Note: It is very difficult to hear the interviewer speak throughout this segment.] Milton Pearce’s most...

Alan Moskin had difficulty sleeping during his occupation duty [Annotator's Note: in Europe from 8 May 1945 to 1 March...

James Siracuse was born in Upper Manhattan [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] in 1920. He was raised there. He...

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