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Joe Crandall believes that the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944,...

Russell Hoff was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania in October 1924. After a year, the family moved to Willow Grove,...

Erico J. Catalano was born in Brooklyn, New York in June 1920. Catalano was the fourth of ten children. His father...

Heywood Mason [Annotator's Note: a Private 1st Class in the US Army 88th Infantry Division] recovered from a case of...

After Sicily, Floyd Dumas went to Salerno. The fighting there was not much different than it had been in Sicily except...

Bernard Kofsky's [Annotator's Note: with the 94th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] worst mission was in Schweinfurt [...

Thomas J. Blakey and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] were in...

In the prison of war camp [Annotator’s Note: Stalag XVII-B, Krems, Austria], Virgil Faust learned to play the card game...

Arthur Seltzer matured very quickly as a result of the war. He was 18 when he was drafted and 19 on Omaha Beach. He...

John W. Towle spent time in Scotland after arriving from the United States on the Queen Elizabeth. He rode a train from...

Leonard Jindra never saw any troops he served with intentionally commit crimes. It was the rear echelon troops who...

In May 1943, Burt Richard Sadler would turn 18 years old. He did not want to join the Army because he saw so many drunk...

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