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Leo Terrebonne was born in Westwego, Louisiana in 1923, the third of three children. Both of his parents were Cajuns. [...

Edward G. Willette was born in August 1924 in Chicago, Illinois. He and his sister, the children of a milk salesman,...

Vernon Grimes has lost two wives since the war, but never cried over them, despite loving them dearly. He believes his...

All that Robert S. Rugeley and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 285th Signal Pigeon Company] knew was that racing pigeons...

Leroy Redmond started at Fort Dix [Annotator's Note: Fort Dix, New Jersey] and was then sent to Camp Breckenridge,...

Rodney Charles Fraser went through Aachen [Annotator’s Note: Aachen, Germany] and saw the obvious destruction [...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was aboard USS LST-502 for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944.] USS...

Seymour Reitman's entire senior geometry class enlisted while they were still in high school. When he turned 18 years...

Marvin H. Gohlke was on a combat patrol. They were supposed to get an object or area. He was on the extreme left flank...

There was a set procedure for ditching an airplane which they had practiced before. Everyone except the pilot and...

Otis Barnes moved down with the 3rd Army and Patton [Annotator's Note: US Army Lieutenant General George S. Patton, Jr...

Byron Othello Wilkins, who goes by B.O. Wilkins, was named after his father. He grew up in northeast Arkansas in Luxora...

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