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Harry Snyder was born in August 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was an only child who lived with his mother and...

Fred Arthur Balfour went into service in 1944. He went to Electrician Mate's school in Bainbridge, New York. They...

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

After being evacuated by an ambulance from the Hurtgen Forest [Annotator's Note: Battle of Hürtgen Forest, 19 September...

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

Leon Waldman was able to take leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] after 25...

Charles Coolidge passed through Rome and went as far as Roccastrada where the Germans turned and surrounded the...

Winnecken Gerhard was sent to Normandy around 15 May 1944, only a few weeks prior to the D-Day invasion [Annotator's...

Francis Dymnicki would wake up very early in the morning to prepare for a bombing mission. Daylight hours in England...

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

Edgar R. "Ross" Forman completed basic training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He did most of his freshman term in the Army...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was aboard USS LST-502 for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944.] They...

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