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When he was initially assigned [Annotator's Note: to the 88th Infantry Division], Harry Baughman was put into Company D...

Arthur Smith says that when they were sinking Japanese luggers [Annotator's Note: slang for cargo ships], the often...

William Banghart was born in May 1919 in Bucksport, Maine. His father worked in the Boston [Annotator’s Note: Boston,...

Walter Barnes was born in New Orleans and grew up on Webster Street in the Uptown neighborhood. Life was good for him....

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

[Annotator’s Note: A dog barks throughout the segment.] George Tamburello volunteered to be drafted in 1943 and was...

Charles Scheffel got married on 27 March 1942. He cut his college hours down so he could go on a honeymoon. Scheffel...

Ralph “Bud” Ginrich crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the Queen Mary. He had completed basic training just fine. Reaching...

When William McCowen [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the Strategic Air Command of the US Air Force] came home from Korea...

Joseph Hochadel and his squad started down the road and a German tank began to shell them. It was traumatic and they...

Timothy Mahoney only went on a flight after he did repairs to the radar equipment. The pilots did not like doing those...

F.M. Richard Simons' worst memories are of the cold and the fear of falling asleep in his foxhole. They had wire with...

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