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Rothacker Smith had no idea that war was in his future on the morning of 7 December 1941. Smith was working in a corn...

When Crain got a chance to examine his boat he noticed there were about 50 to 75 marks in the steel where bullets had...

John Vessey had just returned from a mission when he was told that a cease fire was going into effect and the war in...

Dominic Della Vedova completed landings in North Africa [Annotator's Note: the Allied invasion of North Africa,...

Jim Stumpfa had two four-hour watches a day [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Bangor (PF-16)]. They were on four hours...

William Fili was concerned about what his parents were feeling, but it would drive him nuts if he thought about it too...

When Henry Phillips left the hospital after three weeks of recovering from his third wound he boarded a replacement...

William Banghart remembers Rommel [Annotator's Note: German Army Generalfeldmarschall, or Field Marshal, Johannes Erwin...

James Read Kirk got out of the war as a staff sergeant in September 1945. He immediately went to college. He used the...

William Edwin Howard was drafted in 1942. He was sent to Camp Croft, South Carolina to train as an infantryman. It was...

William Blanckenburg was alongside a creek and the Germans were on the other side. This was before Blanckenburg got...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks very slowly throughout this segment.] Taylor Howard was born in October 1918 in...

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