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World War II changed John McCarthy and his life tremendously. Without the war, he might have been a factory worker....

Ralph Boyer was on the SS Argentina with his crew heading to Europe. He slept with 15 other men in a stateroom. The...

[Annotators Note: Franklin Denius was an artillery forward observer in Battery C, 230th Field Artillery Battalion, 30th...

Sullivan Tindal did not write too much to his family while he was in Europe because he did not have a lot of time and...

John Bache-Wiig, Jr. went to Camp Roberts [Annotator's Note: in Monterey County and San Luis Obispo County, California...

George Shenkle [Annotator's Note: serving with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] was...

Leonard Spivey did not have a full crew for the mission. On the Schweinfurt mission Spivey was the squadron lead...

The Hurtgen Forest was thick so they [Annotator's Note: Roland Chaisson and the rest of the 1st Infantry Division] didn...

Herbert Heilbrun wrote his last letter before his final mission. [Annotator's Note: A baby has been crying in the...

Francis Dolsen had to bail out of a plane. [Annotator’s Note: The interviewer is talking about the different pilots and...

Stanley Jack Birnbaum fell into his landing craft before landing at one of the American beaches at Normandy about five...

Charles R. Smith [Annotator's Note: with Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 417th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry...

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