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Johnny Ngai was almost killed three times. He was lucky. He was with a guy from Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago,...

Only five men survived from the fight on the hilltop. It was the first time Charles Scheffel was wounded. A German had...

William Leo Spaetgens enlisted in the United States Navy [Annotator's Note: on 22 October 1942]. His parents did not...

Dominic Martello served with the Service Company [Annotator's Note: early Cannon Company, before they established them...

George Henry Rosenberg was born in Chicago, Illinois in June 1922. His father was able to retain a job in the railroad...

Raymond Burchell used grenades to fight the tanks. [Annotator's Note: Burchell is referring to the Battle of the Bulge...

Rothacker Smith attended North High School in Detroit, Michigan after his family moved back to the city from the...

In October 1944, John Baldori was sent overseas and served in the Mediterranean [Annotator’s Note: under US Army...

Robert Jagers wrote a lot of letters home [Annotator's Note: while aboard the USS LST-351]. He would say things in code...

John Shirley [Annotator’s Note: a sergeant with the 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division serving in Italy]...

Erwin Blonder was sent to a hospital in Illinois for his trench foot. He remembers another incident regarding his...

Many times when Alfred Dietrick was on the front lines, he said that if he ever got out alive, he would not complain...

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