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Norman Raner was born in November 1917 near Guthrie Center, Iowa. He went to high school and then worked in a CC Camp [...

Dominic Della Vedova [Annotator’s Note: serving in Company D, 1st Battalion, 168th Infantry Regiment, 34th Infantry...

The air raid sirens that would warn the ships of incoming kamikazes kept the men up day and night. Psychologically it...

Freddie Ohr found out it was that bullet that ricocheted off his helmet and went into the cushion. His leader made a...

Richard Field and the other men of 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion had to buy scarves and jackets from the armored...

As Lee O. McKinnon was on his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Calvert (APA-32)] that had reached North Africa for an...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks very slowly throughout this segment.] Taylor Howard was sent overseas [Annotation...

William Blanckenburg was alongside a creek and the Germans were on the other side. This was before Blanckenburg got...

After flight school, Charles Kitowski went to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to await orders. He flew very few hours there...

William McCowen should never have gotten in the military in the first place. He had trick knees. He played a lot of...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks the interviewee what the military nurses did for socializing during their war...

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