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Robert L. Donovan did not want to be in the infantry. He was working at the Goodrich Company when he learned that the...

Jack D. Samuelson continued at Occidental [Annotator’s Note: he was a freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles,...

Prior to the battle near Oradour-sur-Glane, John Singlaub experienced a German Heinkel 111 bomber attack. The aircraft...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Hayes was assigned to the USS Tortuga (LSD-26) as an electrician in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.]...

Herbert Yudenfriend took classes [Annotator's Note: from the United States Armed Forces Institute or USAFI]. The...

[Annotator's Note: Phineas Stevens was ordered to join a Landing Ship Tank flotilla, LST Flotilla 7, from San Francisco...

On 3 May 1941, the Japanese landed on Mindanao [Annotator's Note: Mindanao, Philippines]. Milton L. McMullen, Sr. and...

Richard Keller grew up in Hahnville [Annotator's Note: Hahnville, Louisiana]. He started in the first grade the year...

Richard Witaker was awarded the Purple Heart for being wounded on Okinawa. He was leaving Sugar Loaf Hill when a buddy...

Lawrence Brooks was drafted in 1940 and went for basic training at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. By November [Annotator's...

Arthur L. Eads [Annotator's Note: as a 1st class shipfitter for the 133rd Naval Construction Battalion] was on a ship...

On December 7th [Annotator's Note: 7 December 1941], Robert Erskine Hendricks [Annotator's Note: with Battery B, 6th...

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