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The war did not change William C. Smith, Junior very much. He did not have a good education growing up. He had to teach...

Freddie Ohr’s friend Leon asked him to go with him into the Air Corps. Ohr walked into a storefront that had been...

Odell Vaughn stepped on a shoebox mine and lost both his legs. Vaughn had collected mines in his barracks bag prior to...

John Baldori in Newburg, Pennsylvania in February 1920. He grew up with four older sisters and two younger brothers....

Sicily [Annotator's Note: Operation Husky, 9 July to 17 August 1943, Sicily, Italy] was the most difficult invasion...

Harley Reynolds and his unit were moving inland toward their objective. The first troops from his unit he ran into were...

Rothacker Smith's family moved into his grandfather's house in Detroit before the Great Depression. There, Smith and...

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

Arthur Smith operated there [Annotator's Note: Mindoro, Philippines] until they secured the Philippines. They worked...

Alfred Dietrick and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry...

Robert Madison said his "war was basically September of 1944 until December of 1944" when he was wounded. He did not...

For Clarke Langrall, there were more positive aspects of his service than negative, and he feels it was a great...

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