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Alfred Dietrick was born in 1921. [Annotator's Note: The tape breaks as Dietrick is giving his birthdate]. [Annotator's...

Walter Broll and his ship the Grace Abbott were in the harbor of Bari, Italy for two weeks before the attack took place...

Yeu Foon, who changed his Chinese name to Johnny Ngai after the war, started out in North Africa [Annotator's Note: the...

Edward J. Leonard was born in August 1919. He started working in the stables at age seven. There were horses all over...

Bryan Compton was born in Watonga, Oklahoma in 1919. He has lived around Watonga all his life and got to see the world...

At Kasserine Pass Edward LaPorta was set up at about the middle of the pass. They were on an outpost and there was a...

The Germans were formidable because of their early conquests like the blitzkrieg [Annotator's Note: method of warfare...

John Robert Mannarino [Annotator's Note: serving as a translator for the US Army in Palermo, Sicily] spoke fluent...

The Germans would use flares at night and drop them over the American convoy. At night this would illuminate the fleet...

Rothacker Smith had no idea that war was in his future on the morning of 7 December 1941. Smith was working in a corn...

When Charles Coolidge landed in Southern France there was little opposition after the major shelling the Germans took...

Robert Jagers' daily routine [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS LST-351] consisted of standing a four-hour watch, called...

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