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Earl Flanagan recalled his voyage overseas as enjoyable. It reminded him of rollercoasters which he loved. He did not...

Matthew A. Reluga was playing football and got the notice that Pearl Harbor was attacked [Annotator's Note: the...

Stanley James Thurston was born in Irvington, Alabama in March 1924. The family farmed and raised livestock during the...

John Steven Getway was born in 1921 in Sharpsville, Pennsylvania with two older brothers, Paul and Charles, and five...

In 1944,Vernon Schmidt began his military training with a cannon company on the 105mm howitzer [Annotator's Note: M2A1...

James Crane was waiting for D-Day in the war zone. They knew it was coming but did not know when. They had departed New...

Jimmy Doi encountered Italian fascists at San Terenzo. San Terenzo was their last big battle. They were down in a gully...

Byron Othello Wilkins arrived back at Camp Maxey in Texas and saw a group of LSU men at the camp with a band to play...

Charles Magnifico still suffers today from his injuries [Annotator's Note: Magnifico developed immersion foot syndrome...

Vernon Alexander was a history major in college. He ran into a situation about 30 miles outside of Innsbruck, Austria...

Samuel W. Smith was awakened to fly a mission. He had to get up and get his crew ready. They had their breakfast and...

Robert Wolf went into Cologne [Annotator's Note: Cologne, or Koln, Germany]. It was a desert. There was a lot that was...

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