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

Henry Heim was sent to North Africa and then to Italy. They bombed on the other side of the Alps out of Italy. His...

Elmo E. Bell retired from the US Army as a full colonel. His Mississippi National Guard retired grade is brigadier...

Lucien Laborde had no personal contact with General Patton [Annotator's Note: US Army Lieutenant General George S....

Gerard Dillon only had one situation where someone refused to jump. They were going to make a practice jump in France....

Walter Sapp had been in his foxhole for eight days. He could not stand or walk. Two men lifted him out and he woke up...

Frank Curtis McBride’s father and uncle had a pattern shop [Annotator’s Note: a pattern shop develops templates and...

Edgar R. "Ross" Forman completed basic training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He did most of his freshman term in the Army...

Warren William "Bill" Allen, Junior [Annotator's Note: with Battery C, 335th Field Artillery Battalion, 87th Infantry...

[Annotators Note: Barney Old Coyote’s daughter steps in and asks a few questions.] The government had prohibited the...

Bernard Friedenberg had his basic training at Fort Hancock. When Pearl Harbor was attacked, he was working with his...

There were a lot of submarine threats on Nicholas J. Zuras' transatlantic journey to Plymouth, England, where he stayed...

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