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Clinton Riddle initially wanted to join the US Navy after he graduated from high school but being the only child in his...

Joyce Sherman formed some close friendships and they kept in touch. Most were from Pennsylvania [Annotator's Note: like...

A typical day [Annotators Note: in Italy during the war in 1945] started at 4:40 or 5:00 in the morning. After...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Cauble flew Martin B-26 Marauder medium bombers out of Tampa, Florida.]. Before you could...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks very slowly throughout this segment.] After returning home from World War 2,...

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

Alex Vraciu wanted to fly fighters. If he had not been given fighters when he was going through training at Corpus...

William Leo Spaetgens was changed by World War 2. He hated school with a passion. After making it to the tenth grade,...

Robert Jagers' ship [Annotator's Note: the USS LST-351] had no defensive weapons. They started out with three-inch 50s...

For Charles Coolidge, success [Annotators Note: success in combat] continued in Italy. His unit [Annotators Note:...

Joseph “Joe” Grossman enlisted in the Navy in June 1944 because he liked water. He was sent to basic training at...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Field served in the Army as a paratrooper with the 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion, then...

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