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

Joseph Hairston was born in May 1922 in a log cabin just outside of Martinsville, Virginia. He stayed in Virginia for...

When the war started, Arthur Frongello was still in high school, but joined the Navy anyway. When he left the Navy,...

Gowan Duffy remembers that they would refer to one German plane as Bed Check Charlie [Annotator's Note: nickname given...

Roger Shaw was born in New Orleans in 1921. He grew up and was educated in New Orleans. After graduating high school,...

William Blanckenburg wrote a book called Private Blanckenburg Goes to War. During his combat experience they had a long...

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

Walter Barnes and the other American forces in the area moved both during the day and at night. They were constantly...

There was a barber in Ivan Van der Pool's company [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment,...

The first prison camp that Robert Tyler Oakes went to was Stalag Luft IV [Annotator's Note: Pomerania, Poland]. The...

Henry Phillips feels that the French Legion of Honor affair is a wonderful thing, especially in light of the French...

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

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