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Walker, Charles Navy Service to Korean War
[Annotator's Note: Charles Walker enlisted in the Navy in January 1945.] He went into the V-5 Program [Annotator's Note...
Sandoz, James Shooting Down German Planes
James Sandoz's battery [Annotator's Note: Battery A, 554th AAA (AW) Battalion, 29th Infantry Division] was credited...
Halpern, Gerard Moving to the United States
Gerard Halpern finished high school in 1943 then took one semester at a City College before dropping out and joining...
Trauner, Walter Postwar Life
Walter Trauner’s father was a master baker. He made cakes with real cream, and pastries and donuts. Trauner worked in...
Linger, Russell Missions and Down Time
Russell Bretz Linger, Jr. flew a mission where there were heavy guns on the Cherbourg Peninsula [Annotator's Note:...
Rogers, John Early Life, Becoming a Tank Officer, and Fighting the Germans
John Rogers was born and raised in Terre Haute, Indiana. He went to college in Indiana then got a job as a recreation...
Jucksch, William "Bill" Overseas Deployment
The radio William Jucksch carried weighed 60 pounds. He also carried a ten pound extra battery, spare parts, and his...
McLaurine, Luke First Bombing Mission
Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. landed in Algiers [Annotator's Note: Algiers, Algeria] in North Africa and was billeted [...
Laborde, Lucien VE-Day, a Popular Officer, and Relationships with Locals
Lucien Laborde was on staff duty in the war room on the night of 7 May 1945. At about two in the morning they got a TWX...
Tweedt, Vernon T. Landing at Salerno, Italy
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Vernon Tweedt how difficult the landing at Salerno, Italy in Operation...
McCool, William Becoming a Soldier, Unit Assignment and Overseas Deployment
William McCool never thought he would be in the war although his uncles served in the military. He had been trained for...
Schmidt, Philip End of the War and Returning Home
At the end of the war, Philip Schmidt and his unit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters Company, 8th Armored Division] could...

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