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After his retraining period, Phillip Candella went by train to Camp Myles Standish in Massachusetts, and was deployed...

Bernard Baker was born and raised in Saint Louis, Missouri, in February 1924. He grew up with nine siblings. An older...

Malcolm Higgins never saw the morale down within the ranks of the 8th Air Force. To him, morale was fine. Base activity...

Robert Bassemir was born in May 1924 in Ridgewood, New York. He grew up with a brother and a sister. His brother served...

Erik Johnsen was in school at Tulane, University in New Orleans, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He feels this...

John Holton Ford was deployed to France and joined the 3rd Army [Annotator’s Note: he was a second lieutenant battalion...

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

James Crane got into the Merchant Marine because Roosevelt [Annotator’s Note: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and...

Stewart Hihn [Annotator's Note: with the 222nd Infantry Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division] was transferred from the 42nd...

Mancel Kirk was selected to go on a 10 man patrol to snatch a prisoner. They passed through the German lines and made...

George H. Roxandich [Annotator's Note: a German prisoner of war] heard news about how the war was going, and that...

The first time somebody shoots at you, the bullet pops when it goes past your head. Robert E. Foster remembers that...

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