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Roland Chaisson volunteered for the Army when he was 17. He didn't like the Navy and the Marine Corps sounded too tough...

In 1942, Robert Clifford Pryor was sent overseas to Africa [Annotator's Note: with the 92nd Armored Field Artillery...

In October 1944, Harold Ashton deployed to Hawaii. He trained and patrolled there for a month, then flew to Tinian [...

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

Sicily was an easier operation than Italy. Theodore Finkbeiner and his company [Annotators Note: Company H, 2nd...

When they [Annotator's Note: George McGovern and the men on his aircrew] got back to the field they realized they had...

Jim Stumpfa is 94 years old [Annotator's Note: at the time of this interview]. He was in the US Coast Guard for four...

Once Darrell Welch decided to become a pilot, he decided it was a good calling. He never had any trouble in flight...

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

When Charles Scheffel became a platoon leader, he used all of the ammunition that they could teaching his men about...

[Annotator's Note: This clip begins with Edgar De Pue Osgood mid sentence talking about how he went in the service as...

Paul Maymon [Annotator’s Note: with the 17th Field Artillery Regiment] occupied a small German village after the war’s...

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