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In July of 1944, John Witmeyer and his men were some of the first American troops to cross the Seine River in France....

Glen Arnold Jostad grew up on a farm during the Great Depression. His family was poor but never hungry since they had...

Joel Urice was a leading NCO [Annotator's Note: noncommissioned officer] on the troop carrier. It took 13 days to get...

General John Singlaub was born in 1921 in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Range of California. His grandfather...

When he retired from Malmstrom Air Force Base, Great Falls, Montana, in February 1967 after 24 years of service, Joseph...

The location Gordon Higgins was sent for occupation duty was at Dachau, near Munich, Germany. There were 10,000 German...

Seymour Reitman was sent to get occupation money because there was a black market thriving. He borrowed money from some...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was on occupation duty in Kagoshima, Japan after the war ended.] The invasion [...

After basic training, Don Tallon left Virginia for Africa. The journey took 21 days in a convoy. They had rough weather...

Theodore Finkbeiner and his company [Annotators Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd...

Rosette Goldstein was taught to not talk to others while she was sheltered by the Martin family in France during the...

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