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[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks slowly and pauses several times throughout segment.] Vernon Ollar was assigned to...

[Annotator’s Note: A cell phone dings throughout the segment.] George E. Budlong’s most memorable experience of World...

On 2 January 1945, Ettlinger was on a converted ship transport the Ile de France with 3,000 other men, and on 15...

Roy Creek never met any French people until years after the invasion. Chef-du-Pont [Annotator's Note: Chef-du-Pont,...

Wayne O. Hill remembers how important the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act...

Food was extremely scarce for Hugh Colbert and his comrades in German prison camp. Morning rations consisted of a half...

Delbert Wombacher was at Camp Campbell, Kentucky [Annotator's Note: now Fort Campbell, Kentucky] doing some military...

Melvin Linkous [Annotator's Note: as a member of Cannon Company, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division] was...

Donald Strait's first victory came when he was escorting B-17s [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy...

Joseph O'Donnell was told he was going overseas by Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo...

William Cassady [Annotator’s Note: serving aboard the USS Frederick Funston (APA-89)] had crew's quarters while they...

Robert Shoens sent a telegram to his wife in Maine to let her know that he was coming home soon. There were a bunch of...

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