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Grant was in town the night before the Stuttgart mission. He had waited around until about 8:00 o'clock before taking...

Edward Dunne [Annotator's Note: a crewmember aboard the USS LST-53] did not like the Germans or the Japanese. He still...

James Livaudais flew in a glider over Allied shipping in the English Channel on his route to land in Normandy on D-Day...

Leonard Spivey was told that the war was over for him and that he would not be fighting again. Spivey gave them name,...

Olen Grant was living in a hotel in Austin, Texas when he got a call from Jim Armstrong. It was the first time Grant...

Edward Dunne's most memorable experience of the war is seeing dead people. It is bad, especially when it is a lot of...

James Livaudais remembers some of the men in his company who were not exactly the best soldiers. One was named James...

Scheduled to take part in the bombing of German held oil fields in Romania, Robert Sweatt left Portreath, England on a...

Ed Tunnicliff was put on a hospital ship and sent home. It was nice with white sheets. When he returned to the United...

John Bache-Wiig, Jr. went to Mather Field in Sacramento [Annotator's Note: Sacramento, California] for special unit...

Robert Martin went to upholstery school with the GI Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment...

Winfield Zerphey and the airplane's crew were granted liberty after flying several missions. He and a few other men...

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