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Henry Armstrong trained in artillery. He was six feet two inches tall. When they boarded the train after basic training...

Lynn Compton had his orders changed so he could play baseball in Paris. He would look around for facilities for the...

[Annotator's Note: Martin Richard's Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber was hit by antiaircraft fire near Caen,...

Gerard Halpern and his fellow soldiers of the 45th Infantry Division spent the six weeks after the fall of Rome doing...

Edward Dunne and the men [Annotator's Note: the crew of the USS LST-53] were told what was going to happen [Annotator's...

On the morning of the 16th [Annotator's Note: 16 December 1944] Lyle Bouck was surprised by shelling. They could hear...

John W. Towle was assigned to the 448th Bomb Group while in Washington. He still belongs to a veterans group and...

John Foy wanted to mention something about the quartermasters. They were mostly black units, relegated to unloading...

Robert Martin wanted to join the Navy because his friend had gone in before he did. He was a year or two older than him...

When Mort Walker was in charge of the POW camp [Annotators Note: see segment titled Overseas Duty in Italy] there were...

It was a relatively small crowd at the University [Annotator's Note: University of Szeged in Szeged, Hungary] when Ivan...

Eva Aigner and her husband decided to leave. They left through Austria and ended up in the United States. It is not...

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