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When the draft began in 1942, everyone from the ages 17 and a half to 35 years old had to sign up. Roberto "Bob” Ruiz...

Charles Coolidge went into Anzio during the day then started moving that night for a planned attack the next morning....

James W. Phillips recalled that the warfare felt less heavy after the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

The Allied forces had been unsuccessful in their bombing of the submarine bases at Lorient and Saint-Nazaire, and...

David T. Morgenthaler was transferred to the Headquarters and Service Company [Annotator's Note: Headquarters and...

Captain Smith was surprised to see John M. Roberts and his buddies show up as he had them listed as missing in action....

In June 1943, Warren Leo Lodholz was deployed to North Africa by way of a ship from Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. After 11...

John Kerner was in Nancy, France and there was a lot of fighting going on. Not far from the front line, there was a USO...

[Annotator's Note: Wynn Bauer served in the Army as an assistant driver on an M4 Sherman medium tank in the 36th...

The Americans had very qualified airplanes in the P-51 and P-47. He remembered that the P-47 could keep a higher speed...

Richard Frothingham's unit [Annotator's Note: 656th Field Artillery Battalion] got word that they were being...

The next shocking thing Vernon Breen remembers was that as the war was winding down, a lot of the Germans got out of...

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