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Irvin C. Klimas was in boot camp for six weeks. After boot camp, he had a ten day leave [Annotator's Note: an...

Baum served with the 4th Armored Division during WWII. He was born in New York and grew up in the Bronx. His father was...

Assigned as a B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber] pilot, Eben Smith arrived first in...

Harley Bridger and his crew lived in tents with six men each. They were fortunate with their engineer. Bridger felt the...

Stegmeier enlisted because everybody was doing it. There was a draft going on and if you didn't enlist you would be...

John Raaen returned to the United States for recovery in early February [Annotator’s Note: February 1945] after being...

Marion Bahlinger was born in August 1925 in Baton Rouge [Annotator's Note: Baton Rouge, Louisiana]. He grew up with...

Seymour Reitman entered a mountainous area with a panzer [Annotator's Note: German term for tank or armored] division...

Wayne Pierce grew up in the small farming community of Polo, Illinois. He was drafted in June 1941 six months before...

Although Francis Neilson was a war veteran, he was not yet 21 when he got out of the armed services, and couldn’t get a...

When Glynn G. Raby Jr. first considered enlisting, he wanted to join the Air Corps. He was young, and aviation was...

James Siracuse worked in the cellar at Western Electric for awhile. The boss never came down so he could horse around a...

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