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Rothacker Smith's family moved into his grandfather's house in Detroit before the Great Depression. There, Smith and...

There were a lot of cases where there were no NCOs [Annotator's Note: non-commissioned officers]. Roland Chaisson says...

Merrill J. Clark's first operation [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 85th Mountain Infantry Regiment,...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Radford served in the Army as an infantryman in Company I, 3rd Battalion, 133rd Infantry...

Edward LaPorta was a member of the 1st Armored Division. The first tanks they had overseas were riveted together. They...

F.M. Richard Simons did not smoke and gave his daily cigarettes away. So many people in World War 2 were given free...

Edward J. Leonard was born in August 1919. He started working in the stables at age seven. There were horses all over...

Van Barfoot recalls difficult times when they landed in Southern France. He was a platoon leader and had been promoted...

Walter Henry Barton had no problem transferring from a soldier to a civilian. His most memorable experience from World...

Mary T. Heany was born in July 1923 in Detroit, Michigan. They had a nice house. She walked to school with her brother...

Lawrence Richard "Red" Gilbert and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 1st Ranger Battalion] were sent out again...

Before they boarded the train, Rothacker Smith and his fellow prisoners were strip searched. Then, 52 men were loaded...

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