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The Red Ball Express hauled the troops around and it was almost completely made of black drivers. When they got ready...

George Will was born in 1941 in Illinois. He has one memory of the war years. He was four years and three months old...

Kenneth H. Bailey deployed overseas in December 1943. He spent Christmas in Singleton, England. They spent six months...

The last day of the war in Italy for Howard T. Maki was in early May 1945. It was VE-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in...

Heywood Mason crossed the Atlantic to Europe in a big convoy. They were not hassled by submarines and torpedoes as the...

Around D 7 [Annotator's Note: d-day, the initial day of the operation, plus seven days; 26 March 1945; Iwo Jima, Japan...

Grant Patton remembers they had to use five-gallon cans to gas the airplanes up. His plane had depth charges [Annotator...

After landing at Normandy beach for the D-Day Invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy,...

Walter Halloran spent his first night in France in an apple orchard [Annotator’s Note: Halloran had landed that morning...

Edward Dunne [Annotator's Note: a crewmen aboard the USS LST-53] has no particular memory of D-Day [Annotator's Note: D...

James Kemp McLaughlin remembers that after the bombers got fighter cover everything got easier. A damaged aircraft...

Roger Bertolini served in the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. He did his basic training at Camp...

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