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Harley Reynolds remembers artillery fire coming in from one of the supporting ships out at sea. The shells came just...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Field served in the Army as a paratrooper with the 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion, then...

Robert Jagers' daily routine [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS LST-351] consisted of standing a four-hour watch, called...

Walter Barnes was born in New Orleans and grew up on Webster Street in the Uptown neighborhood. Life was good for him....

Johnny Ngai says the trouble is that they [Annotator's Note: the Veterans Administration or VA] do not help you if you...

Alfred Dietrick [Annotator's Note: with Company B, 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division] went...

Arthur Smith says that when they were sinking Japanese luggers [Annotator's Note: slang for cargo ships], the often...

Armiger Jagoe was born in April 1921 in Okolona, Mississippi and moved to Gulfport, Mississippi when he was two years...

John Shirley [Annotator’s Note: a sergeant with the 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division serving in Italy] was...

Thomas W. Stevenson Jr. served with the 772nd Bombardment Squadron, 463rd Bombardment Group, 5th Bombardment Wing,...

Frederick Amore was born in 1924 in Bay Ridge, New York and lived there until age 17 when he moved to Rome, New York....

Freddie Ohr had a lot of things happened to him. The first guy Ohr encountered really tried to make it tough on him....

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