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

Darrell Welch went to El Paso [Annotator's Note: El Paso, Texas] to get his physical. He went to Fort Bliss [Annotator'...

Eugene Dorsey was assigned to the Navy Armed Guard and spent fourteen months in the Mediterranean on various transport...

Erwin Blonder recalls the tactics that the Germans used in France. They would use small scale hit and run tactics. They...

Hairston operated a Howitzer during the war. He notes that artillery is never really precise. There were a lot of...

Odell Vaughn was wounded while trying to remove a comrade from a minefield. He was awarded the Silver Star for his...

Mary T. Heany was excited to be sent to Nashville [Annotator’s Note: Nashville, Tennessee]. She was asked to go on a...

Thomas D. Thompson was observing a dogfight between a P-51 [Annotator's Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter...

Tokuji Yoshihashi and his fellow replacements arrived there [Annotator's Note: in France] shortly after the 442nd...

Donald Louis Duffy feels that the local population in Southern France was more hospitable and welcoming than the people...

Theodore Finkbeiner and the paratroopers he was with started heading toward Gela. Whenever they heard shooting they...

Bruce LaRose [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division in North Africa] had to...

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