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Olin Pickens dealt with nightmares for years after his time in captivity as a prisoner of war, often dreaming about...

Alfred A. Johnson, Jr. moved south after crossing the Rhine [Annotator's Note: Rhine River, Germany] and entered...

Odell Vaughn was wounded near Pisa, Italy. He went to assist a wounded man in a minefield. Four men near him...

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

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

Robert Clifford Pryor [Annotator's Note: with the 92nd Armored Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Armored Division]...

It rained everyday while Donald Louis Duffy and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company I, 3rd Battalion, 30th Infantry...

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

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

[Annotator's Note: Joseph Hairston served in the army as a forward observer with the 599th Field Artillery Battalion,...

Dominic Della Vedova [Annotator’s Note: serving in Company D, 1st Battalion, 168th Infantry Regiment, 34th Infantry...

Jim Stumpfa sang the US Coast Guard song while they were marching. He enjoyed the exercise. He did not like the middle-...

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