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George Roberts was signed up to fly 25 missions. After flying only 16 missions, however, that required number was...

Paul Hilton Madden Jr. was assigned to Company A, 1st Battalion, 379th Infantry Regiment, 95th Infantry Division as a...

Benjamin Wolf Cohen returned to the United States right before the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons...

One morning for breakfast, the commander told Alfred Dietrick and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 1st...

In June 1943, two weeks before his 18th birthday, William M. Barnett was given permission to leave prep school [...

Leon Bass was training in Mississippi. Black soldiers were to be given ideas about why we were fighting the war. The...

Carl Light and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company C, 61st Armored Infantry Battalion, 10th Armored Division] captured...

Vernon Alexander got into trouble prior to getting into combat. He had been practicing field stripping his machine gun...

Leon Bass's mother always told him he did not need to use violence to solve a problem. His friends were tough guys....

Carl Light returned home after the first of the new year [Annotator's Note: in 1946]. As an 18 year old, Light did not...

Vernon Alexander had never been on a big boat before his overseas deployment. The troops were stacked five deep in the...

James F. Dorris, Jr. and his unit [Annotator’s Note: Company A, 1st Battalion, 222nd Infantry Regiment, 42nd Infantry...

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