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Charles Coolidge took sheep into a minefield instead of sending men through it to be sure there were no mines. Early in...

Charles Coolidge discusses his reunion with his family. When he got to Camp Atterbury he went to the Top Sergeant and...

Erwin Blonder was trained as a Forward Observer. He began his military career in 1939. He was required to complete ROTC...

In 1944, Togue Uchida and 700 others were sent to Naples [Annotator's Note: Naples, Italy] where he joined the 100th...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Darrell Welch to explain how missions escorting bombers went for him.] They...

Alexander Jefferson flew a mission to Ploesti [Annotator's Note: Ploesti, Romania]. It was the first time Jefferson had...

Wilburn K. Ross stayed behind because he felt that he was able to stop the Germans. He had confidence in his ability to...

Thomas D. Thompson met a girl in Florida before he left the country. When he was home on leave [Annotator's Note: an...

William Fili had not been trained how to bail out of an aircraft. They had one bit of instruction. OSS [Annotator's...

Edward LaPorta was a halftrack driver during his first battle. He remembers that they had nothing to fight with except...

The Allied campaign in Italy was cold and miserable. Alfred A. Johnson, Jr. fought with some Mexican-American troops....

When Crain was in the armada heading towards the beaches [Annotator's Note: during the invasion of Sicily, July 1943],...

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