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Joseph Geary believes that history repeats itself and it is important for young people to understand what has happened...

Paul Roach went away to war as a boy and came back as a man. He did not have any outstanding experiences. He had a nice...

Louis Cardenas was put into the 36th Infantry Division. They learned how to dig foxholes and fire rifles. They would...

Bernard Friedenberg and his unit [Annotator's Note: Medical Detachment, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st...

Joe Crandall served with the 635th Tank Destroyer Battalion in the European Campaign of World War 2. Two weeks before...

Paul Baughman jumped into Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944]...

William Earl Gast remembers the first time he changed into new clothes. He was staying in a house and slept in the...

On 2 October [Annotator's Note: 2 October 1944], Angelo Joseph Spinato and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 4th...

Stanley James Thurston was not provided basic training. After enlistment, he was sent to a pigeon outfit [Annotator's...

Richard Scheerer does not recall hearing any news about D-Day prior to crossing the Channel. The first night he sat...

After the D-Day invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944], William "...

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

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