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Paul Hissey was sent to Northern Texas for basic training for six weeks. He remembered the terrain to be very flat. He...

After returning to California, Theodore Theodore was sent to Denver, Colorado for two months where he had the job of...

The underground had contacted Eva Nathanson's mother and told her they would protect them. During the winter of 1943,...

Alvin Callender went from second lieutenant to captain, and was appointed Operations Officer of the 308th Squadron [...

D-Day [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944] was supposed to be on 5 June 1944. Burt...

In 1949, Louis R. Lepore joined a local tank unit that was later sent to Korea [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 1950 to...

Z. Anthony Kruszewski was in a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camp. The conditions were horrible. Many people...

Kanaya said that medics followed the troops into the field. He liked to pick units that he knew would probably get into...

Emmett Kaylor's time in basic training was his first time in the South where they talked a little different. Their...

Charles Scheffel laid there and must have passed out. His executive officer told him that Morotti [Annotators Note:...

Robert J. Hutchings was assigned as a stenographer under the command of General Eisenhower [Annotator's Note: General...

Michael Cokinos grew up in Beaumont, Texas. During the Great Depression, life was pretty strict for him. His parents...

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