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Dominic Martello thinks Kasserine Pass should be remembered as a screw-up. It was a mess. Generals got captured. In an...

Alexander Jefferson volunteered for service in order to avoid the draft. If he had been drafted he would have been a...

George McGovern also read the Stars and Stripes, the Bible, and various newspapers. He sent home most of what he was...

After the war, Jim Stumpfa got Grace [Annotator's Note: a Navy girlfriend] a hotel room when she came to visit [...

Edgar De Pue Osgood was on anti-submarine and escort duty [Annotator's Note: as a navigator in Patrol Bombing Squadron...

Gowan Duffy remembers the waters were still rough from the storm the day before. As they hit the shore [Annotator’s...

Jack Cohen had a speaking engagement at a school, and a child asked him what was the important thing that kept him...

Ivan Van der Pool believes it is important to study Word War 2. He thinks it is a good training manual for what war is...

Clifford Smith was at home reading a comic book and listening to the radio on 7 December 1941 when the news of the...

Gerard Halpern was serving with the XVth Corps when the war ended. He was stationed in the town of Chantilly right...

Eugene Dorsey was assigned to the Navy Armed Guard. He was sent to the Armed Guard Center in Brooklyn [Annotator's Note...

After graduating from gunnery school, Robert Tyler Oakes was sent to Salt Lake City, Utah to meet his crew. They were...

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