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Olin Pickens sailed overseas and arrived at Oran, North Africa on 26 January 1943. The men with whom Pickens had...

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

Van Barfoot grew up on a farm and his family was all on the farm. They grew cotton and corn and made a living during...

Albert Porche and the 99th Fighter Squadron landed in North Africa. [Annotator's Note: The 99th Fighter Squadron was an...

Walter Henry Barton was born on in Chicago, Illinois in June 1925. He lived in Chicago until being called to active...

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 he was discharged and got home, Dominick Frank Poliseno could not go out for two weeks. He didn't want to meet...

On the ship, Ivan Van der Pool took part in a seminar where the officers told them their mission. He boarded his troop...

Barney Old Coyote’s unit received Presidential Unit Citations for the job they did in bombing bases in the...

The day of the Normandy invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944],...

At the beginning of the war, the ships [Annotator's Note: United States Merchant Marine ships] traveled by themselves...

Charles Coolidge was born in August 1921 on Signal Mountain, Tennessee where his family spent the summer months. The...

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