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John Robert Mannarino [Annotator's Note: serving as a translator for the US Army in Palermo, Sicily] spoke fluent...

Vernon Baker went to Camp Wolters, Texas for basic training and experienced segregation. He got onto a bus when he...

Robert Madison was born in Cleveland, Ohio in July 1923, one of four sons of an educated black man, who held "all sorts...

A year after Raymond Wells was shipped to Okinawa Joyce joined him there. At the time there was very little in terms of...

John Shirley [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division] was sent to England to...

Robert Jagers has two memorable experiences of World War 2. Once when coming back from Sicily, [Annotator's Note:...

Walter Ehlers moved his squad up the hill to the trenches [Annotator's Note: during the D-Day invasion of Normandy on 6...

On 9 June [Annotator's Note: 9 June 1944, during the Normandy invasion], they sent out platoons into a couple of fields...

After contracting polio [Annotator's Note: poliomyelitis, an infectious disease that affects the central nervous system...

In training at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts [Annotator's Note: in Cape Cod, Massachusetts with the 141st Infantry...

Charles Scheffel was wounded twice in Sicily, once in the arm and a fragment in his leg. Scheffel went back to the aid...

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