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On Christmas Day 1943 [Annotator's Note: 25 December 1943], Norman Raner was told he was receiving a battlefield...

Howard T. Maki found that the Purple Heart [Annotator's Note: the Purple Heart Medal is award bestowed upon a United...

William Banghart drove a lieutenant in a general’s jeep. This could have led to a court martial. Banghart was in the...

From his vantage point, Charles Kitowski could tell that the war was shifting in favor of the Allies. The Italian...

When Theodore Finkbeiner landed on Anzio Beach he and the other landing troops were bombed and strafed. Company G [...

William Fili enlisted a few days after Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...

In Italy, William McCowen [Annotator's Note: a member of the US Army Air Forces] would only see Italians when he was...

To David Dennis Oran, North Africa looked just like any other town but the French people there were happy to see them....

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

Timothy Mahoney left the military older. The war made him more responsible. When he left the service, he was married...

Charles Scheffel met up with the 9th Infantry Division near the airport in Algiers. It was the 9th Division's job to...

Erwin Blonder recalls the tactics that the Germans used in France. They would use small scale hit and run tactics. They...

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