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William Dabney and his unit dug into the sand as soon as they landed on the beach. They could not move inland until the...

Richard Willett does not recall exactly where they crossed the border into Germany. They had not been told they were...

Joseph Dean Reilly was a Private First Class [Annotator's Note: PFC, with Headquarters, 3rd Battalion, 501st Parachute...

John Arch McGill says the war was a terrible waste, in terms of loss of human life, of destruction to communities, and...

Crump was only aware that the Depression was a tragedy. Times were hard. Crump’s dad was unemployed half of the time....

Stegmeier thinks that it is important that we continue to study World War II. He once completed a survey stating that...

Norman Weber recognized changes in his father when he returned on leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a...

Jack Davis went to his military training at Camp Pickett [Annotator's Note: now Fort Pickett, near Blackstone, Virginia...

When the draft began in 1942, everyone from the ages 17 and a half to 35 years old had to sign up. Roberto "Bob” Ruiz...

Robert Rans recalls that his first mission was to Messina, Sicily and he remembers being scared as he saw the wall of...

When the troops' Christmas packages were arriving in 1944, Gordon Higgins' unit [Annotator's Note: 2nd Battalion, 407th...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer says that Edward Nickerson was on the O-Nine Six, Douglas C-47 Skytrain cargo...

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