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For Henry Phillips Sicily was a cake walk. They landed in Palermo from a big transport. The Germans used aircraft...

Alexander Jefferson came in the middle of the Tuskegee program. The first program was March 1942 and the last class was...

William Leo Spaetgens was pulled out of the Navy Armed Guard in January 1945. Many men were removed from that service...

Raymond Cauble won an airplane ride in 1935. Cauble volunteered for the service due to patriotism. He says he would...

For William McCowen's [Annotator's Note: as a US Air Force copilot in the 307th Strategic Bomb Wing stationed at Kadena...

Edward J. Leonard remembers they lost the horses and got armored cars and tanks in their place. They were shipped out...

Richard Field was overseas for about 21 months. His son was born nine months after he returned. They sailed out in a...

The Germans pulled back because they did not know how strong the Americans were [Annotator's Note: during Operation...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks very slowly throughout this segment.] Taylor Howard was sent overseas [Annotation...

Robert Jagers and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS LST-351] moved out, anchored, and unloaded their first wave...

Bryan Compton and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 120th Medical Battalion, 45th Infantry Division] attacked the...

Roger Shaw was changed by World War 2. The war changed the world. Shaw had never been on a boat before, and that was a...

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