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After a year and a half of training, James W. Phillips rode on the Queen Mary ocean liner to Europe with his division [...

Leon Bass was training in Mississippi. Black soldiers were to be given ideas about why we were fighting the war. The...

Harold Luers was about 17 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl...

Norman Riggsby went through maneuvers and practice landings in preparation for the invasion of France. Riggsby...

Erik Johnsen served in the US Merchant Marine during World War 2. Thinking about the war, he says that during it he...

James McDermott was not in England as early as the 305th Bombardment Group was. They had sent 16 planes on the...

Donald Evans and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 66th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division] got orders to mount up....

Joseph Dean Reilly [Annotator's Note: with Headquarters, 3rd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st...

Austeen Bice [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 300th Combat Engineer Battalion] landed in Glasgow, Scotland near the...

When the war ended, Thomas Ballew's unit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters, 231st Searchlight Battalion] was in Furth...

Delbert Frank Wombacher was born in Lawrence, Nebraska on a farm [Annotator's Note: in October 1918]. He grew during...

Olen Grant left the service when his operations had been completed. The army tried to get him stay in the service after...

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