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Gustave Heinecke enrolled at Washington and Lee University in 1940. His roommate in 1941 was the son of a congressman...

Clifford Campbell was born in Oklahoma in November 1924. His family was poor growing up. In 1936, his father bought a...

James Moshovitis was born in March 1925 in Washington, D.C., the only son of three children born to Greek immigrants....

Frederick Ellis was sent to Hollandia, New Guinea. He recalls that they were not slated to go on the Leyte [Annotator's...

In 1944, Guy Stern and his unit were broken into six-man intelligence teams. They were on an Australian fruit boat, the...

Byron Herbert Meader was sent to Camp Shelby, Mississippi and assigned to Headquarters, 271st Infantry Regiment [...

At the conclusion of World War 2, there were celebrations, but Thomas W. Gillette did not participate because he had...

Byron Othello Wilkins was taught what to do if he became a POW but no one figured they would become POWs. They boarded...

more missions after D-Day and then returned to the United States. He was in Milwaukie on V-E Day and in Louisiana when...

Roy Creek remembered taking the bridge at Chef-du-Pont [Annotator's Note: Chef-du-Pont, France]. The bridge was intact...

Gerald West walked back two miles to the main camp and Edson [Annotator's Note: USMC Colonel, later Major General,...

William McCowen [Annotator's Note: a member of the US Army Air Forces out of Naples, Italy] had something strange...

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