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

Wilburn K. Ross thinks a lot about the friends he had from home who were either injured or killed. He wishes he could...

When he was initially assigned [Annotator's Note: to the 88th Infantry Division], Harry Baughman was put into Company D...

William Blanckenburg had an upper middle class upbringing, but they struggled during the Depression. Blanckenburg was...

William McCowen should never have gotten in the military in the first place. He had trick knees. He played a lot of...

Dominic Della Vedova’s unit [Annotator’s Note: Company M, 3rd Battalion, 168th Infantry Regiment, 34th Infantry...

Rudy Cravens remembers the ship he deployed on had to zig-zag [Annotator's Note: a naval anti-submarine maneuver] and...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks George Sichler how their second landing, at Salerno, Italy on 9 September 1943...

Rommel [Annotator's Note: German Army Generalfeldmarschall, or Field Marshal, Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel] was sending...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks very slowly throughout this segment.] While Taylor Howard was in the Army, the...

One morning a German officer who spoke English entered the room [Annotator's Note: in their barracks at Stalag III-B in...

Albert Hatala was inducted at Camp Custer, Michigan and was then sent to Camp Swift, Texas for basic training. He then...

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