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They [Annotator's Note: Roland Chaisson and the rest of the 1st Infantry Division] started on their way to Paris but...

Odell Vaughn was wounded while trying to remove a comrade from a minefield. He was awarded the Silver Star for his...

Arthur Smith and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 13 (MTBRon 13)] set up their shore base in...

Alex Vraciu wanted to fly fighters. If he had not been given fighters when he was going through training at Corpus...

In May 1944, Thomas W. Stevenson Jr. completed all of his training and shipped out for Foggia, Italy where he joined...

Rothacker Smith began selling root beer to construction workers at projects around Detroit during the Great Depression...

Since there was a war, Robert Madison said, he was grateful that he got to serve, even though there was discrimination...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Darrell Welch about his first victory against a German aircraft.] He got him...

When John B. Butz arrived in Naples [Annotator's Note: Naples, Italy] it was extremely run down. The citizens there...

Leedell Neyland joined the Navy in January 1941. He was supposed to do four years, but they were going to do six years...

John Shirley wrote ten war stories. His first day in combat was memorable. He climbed out of a ditch and onto the...

Thomas D. Thompson was born in Wichita Falls, Texas in August 1925. There were ten children in his family, and he was...

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