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

When the American troops landed in Sicily, Lawrence Richard "Red" Gilbert recalls receiving heavy fire from the...

After the shooting [Annotator's Note: white officers shooting black soldiers after fight in Louisiana], Joseph Hairston...

Harley Reynolds and his unit disembarked from Sicily near the beach where they landed. There was a convoy on the way...

William Banghart went with the 64th Fighter Wing. He was in several different outfits. In the letters he wrote, he put...

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

Arthur Frongello believes the Navy uniform is the most innovative piece of clothing a man could wear. The stripes,...

Robert Tyler Oakes recalls that the prisoners had a homemade radio that they hid from the German guards while he was in...

Walter Broll and the Grace Abbott left Bari the day after the attack. It appeared that the Abbott may have been the...

The uniform pants Walter Barnes wore were baggy and the jackets hung out. The uniform was made of a canvas type...

Norman Raner fought mostly Germans when he was in North Africa [Annotator's Note: with 3rd Platoon, Company I, 3rd...

William McCowen [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the Strategic Air Command of the US Air Force] said he was not going to...

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