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Deploying overseas was the first time Stegmeier had ever left the country and it was interesting for him. When they...

Bernard Hillenbrand does not recall too much of when he landed on Omaha Beach [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied...

Charles Balaza was in Manila Bay on a minesweeper during the morning of the Pearl Harbor attack. He was returning to...

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

Nobody on Omer Van Huylenbrouck's plane was ever wounded by flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire] as far...

[Annotator's Note: Donelson Houseman served in the Army as the 81mm mortar platoon leader in Company D, 1st Battalion,...

Philemon Andrews Saint Amant was in the British Isles [Annotator's Note: the United Kingdom, with the 190th Field...

Leisey recalls having to do sponge ball therapy so he could build up the strength up in his hand. He has problems...

Irvin C. Klimas and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Thompson (DD-627)] gave support to the landing forces around...

Nicholas J. Zuras obtained binoculars in Weymouth [Annotator's Note: Weymouth, England]. The wooden decks of the boats...

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

Jack Carver began his basic training at Fort McClellan, Alabama. An accelerated training went on there to teach...

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