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Avon is 60 miles south of Mitchell, South Dakota. George McGovern spent the first three years of his life in Avon. He...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks very slowly throughout this segment.] Taylor Howard lived in Gulfport [Annotator’...

Kanaya had no idea if everyone made it back. They got off of the train in Chicago; there was a train from the Pacific...

Frank Finklang was born in April 1924 in Saint Louis [Annotator's Note: Saint Louis, Missouri]. He served with the...

When William McCowen [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the Strategic Air Command of the US Air Force] came home from Korea...

In September 1943, Harold Ashton's squadron [Annotator's Note: Patrol Squadron 21 (VP-21)] was sent to England. On the...

While Raymond Wells was in the hospital a driver picked him up and when he got back to his company [Annotator's Note:...

William C. Smith, Junior [Annotator's Note: a forward observer with the 1st Infantry Division] prepared for the French...

Darrell Welch is a fifth generation Texan born in Center City, Texas [Annotator's Note: in March 1918]. He moved West...

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

Freddie Ohr was born in Portland, Oregon in 1919. When he was four years old they moved to Idaho where Ohr grew up. Ohr...

Walter Ehlers' life didn't end with his military service. He spent 29 years working for the Veterans Administration....

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