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John Rogers enjoyed the Air Force officer that served with them. He was always able to locate a chicken to eat. It was...

Harry George Paege, Junior did not think about staying in the Army. He wanted to go to college and be a lawyer. He got...

Kenneth R. Williams was born in Alton, Illinois in March 1922. He was an only child. He grew up in Illinois and Ohio....

Alexander White enlisted in the U.S. Army and was sent to Fort Sam Houston in Texas. There he met his wife, a native of...

Upon returning to the United States in mid 1946, Manuel Ruiz turned down the opportunity for a promotion if he agreed...

The men learned to pack parachutes and jump from a tower. They had to pack the first 10 parachutes they would use at...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was liberated on 29 April [Annotator's Note: 29 April 1945]. A pitched battle was fought...

The exact date that Irving Baum got to England [Annotator's Note: as a bombardier with the 407th Bombardment Squadron,...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Asbury went to England and was checked out in the North American P-51 Mustang fighter...

Gerald Claassen’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was getting married because he could afford it by being an...

Kaare Allan Johnson and his unit [Annotator's Note: 596th Parachute Combat Engineer Company, 517th Parachute Infantry...

Frank Buschmeier and the others were loaded onto trucks the following day and sent to a local base. The guys were...

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