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Joseph Dean Reilly went back to work when he returned home. He could use the GI Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill,...

Elmo Bell's 1st Battalion commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Mark Alexander, was always worried about the business...

James Siracuse worked in the cellar at Western Electric for awhile. The boss never came down so he could horse around a...

Joseph Brannan was born in Gillett, Arkansas in 1922. Raised during the Great Depression, his father had a business in...

The 20th Engineers was the first unit to go into Bizerte. George Griffenhagen and his fellow engineers spent the first...

Romay Catherine Johnson Davis [Annotator's Note: a Private in the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion of the...

Opal Grapes joined the Army and reported for duty at Foster General Hospital in Temple, Texas. She underwent training...

Freddie Ohr was born in Portland, Oregon in 1919. When he was four years old they moved to Idaho where Ohr grew up. Ohr...

The next shocking thing Vernon Breen remembers was that as the war was winding down, a lot of the Germans got out of...

Cecil N. Duck was born in August 1925 in Bay Minnette, Alabama, and when he was six years old, his family moved to...

[Annotator's Note: Edward Nickerson flew across the Atlantic and landed in Scotland in early 1944.] Edward Nickerson...

During the war, rationing was a way of life in England, according to Constance Cresswell. Each person was allotted two...

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