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When Edward LaPorta was in North Africa they wore a combat suit. At night they put on heavier clothes because it gets...

Carl Robert Gatlin enlisted in the Army and after training, he was sent to Blackstone, Virginia to be shipped overseas...

Ivan Van der Pool believes having The National WWII Museum [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans, Louisiana] is important...

Perrett's contact with the German prisoner of war (POWs) he transported was very brief. The POWs were usually quite and...

In basic training David Dennis went to school first. His basic training was the normal marching and learning their gun...

John Lawler was born in September 1921 in Baltimore [Annotator's Note: Baltimore, Maryland] with three brothers and...

Albert Porche went into the service after Pearl Harbor was attacked. The armed forces were trying to recruit as many...

Freddie Ohr sat down and everybody sat around him to keep him warm. Ohr got up and looked around and realized there was...

Arnold Horn and his unit [Annotator’s Note: 45th Infantry Division] moved about 20 miles a day once they were in France...

When Charles McGee first got to Italy, a lot of work and activity was based around survival. The men would improve...

Thomas D. Thompson was in the Lingayen Gulf [Annotator's Note: Lingayen Gulf, Philippines] aboard a PC [Annotator's...

Vernon Baker went to Camp Wolters, Texas for basic training and experienced segregation. He got onto a bus when he...

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