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Ralph F. Lafferty took over a company that had been pinned down. The original officer had been wounded in the face and...

Frank Finklang's most memorable experience of the war was when he found out that his crew members were missing in...

Clinton Riddle initially wanted to join the US Navy after he graduated from high school but being the only child in his...

There were a lot of cases where there were no NCOs [Annotator's Note: non-commissioned officers]. Roland Chaisson says...

Shiyuza Hayashi is Japanese-American. He was born in America and did not know what Japan was like. His parents had...

Life on base was "awful" according to Edwin Sved. The men lived in tents set up in the mud and took cold showers, but...

Norman Raner got off the ship in Oran [Annotator's Note: Oran, Algeria]. He went to an old school and billeted [...

Edward LaPorta does not recall anything special about the battles at Gafsa and El Guettar. Battles are all the same....

William Leo Spaetgens was born on a farm in Roberts Cove near Crowley, Louisiana in 1922. He had eight siblings but one...

Charles Coolidge passed through Rome and went as far as Roccastrada where the Germans turned and surrounded the...

Chester L. Talley was not too anxious to go overseas and serve in World War 2, but since he had no choice, he tried to...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Raymond Cauble if he recalls where he was when he heard the news of the...

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