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Marvin H. Gohlke was on a combat patrol. They were supposed to get an object or area. He was on the extreme left flank...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks James Albert Kitts what it was like to be in combat for the first time.] It was...

[Annotator’s Note: A washing machine running in the background is audible throughout this segment. Interviewee has...

Lloyd Geist was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in July 1921. His family moved to Houma...

Robert Boeke and his classmates talked about the war in social studies class. He sang in the boys' choir. They started...

Samuel W. Smith was sent to Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. They had to have college training. They were the...

By 21 March [Annotator's Note: 21 March 1945], the American forces were getting close so John Mock and his fellow...

William E. Byrnes was born in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] in January 1926. His family moved around a...

Frank Curtis McBride enlisted in the Air Force because he wanted to fly. With an abundance of applicants for flight...

Fred Gordon was enjoying life after the war. He was in Czechoslovakia waiting to be sent home. In the meantime, he was...

World War 2 changed Edward C. Capron Jr.’s life completely because he was very easy going while he was working at the...

Robert "Bob" Lowry had about 200 or 300 soldiers they [Annotator's Note: as crew on the USS LST-538 in Plymouth,...

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