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Philip Schmidt received his orders to go overseas in November 1944. In the year and a half he was at Fort Polk [...

George Grugett was born in McConnell, Tennessee which no longer exists. His father worked for the railroad. He moved...

Ray League was raised with authority and discipline in a Christian home so he was not changed very much by his time in...

Charles White remembers traveling at night was bad. They could only proceed based on the exhaust from the tank in front...

Leonard Spivey notes that the Schweinfurt experience was his major experience in combat. It is considered to be one of...

Heywood Mason [Annotator's Note: a Private 1st Class in the US Army 88th Infantry Division] dug foxholes, and when rain...

Richard Ford is able to watch World War 2 movies. Most of the movies in his opinion are a bunch of BS. They do things...

Johnnie A. Jones, Senior went to Southern University Demonstration High School [Annotator's Note: Southern University...

Ralph Boyer served as a bombardier with the 560th Bombardment Squadron, 388th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force at...

James F. Dorris, Jr. could not believe how cruel the Germans could be to other humans [Annotator's Note: when his unit...

Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld anticipated an attack after the artillery stopped. [Annotator's Note: Lichtenfeld was an...

John T. "Jack" Race had to go through training to become an officer and to take a flight test to qualify him for a...

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