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Erwin Blonder was trained as a Forward Observer. He began his military career in 1939. He was required to complete ROTC...

Johnny Ngai landed on Anzio [Annotator's Note: Anzio, Italy] in Higgins boats [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear paper ruffling in the background throughout this segment.] Albert Castaing was in New...

After he left the service, Armiger Jagoe went back to Harvard, but left after a week because he couldn’t sit in a...

Night began to fall [Annotator's Note: on Monte Sambucaro or Sammucro, Italy; December 1943], and a runner came to get...

After contracting polio [Annotator's Note: poliomyelitis, an infectious disease that affects the central nervous system...

William Leo Spaetgens had his life changed by the Second World War. If a person could not work for something or pay for...

Arthur Smith was stationed at La Maddalena [Annotator's Note: Advanced Base La Maddalena, Sardinia, Italy]. Pop Bond [...

Robert Jagers used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was...

John Vessey landed in Oran and went immediately to [Annotators Note: unsure of town he says], 50 miles or more out of...

Leedell Neyland joined the Navy in January 1941. He was supposed to do four years, but they were going to do six years...

Edward LaPorta and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] got a lot of things done in the camp [Annotator...

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