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Vernon Alexander was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1924 and lived there for the first five years of his life. His dad...

James Livaudais received replacements prior to the Battle of the Bulge. [Annotator’s Note: in December 1944] One...

Henry Schaller received his pilot's wings in 1944. After he graduated, he was a second lieutenant. He could not hear...

Norman Cook was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in November 1923. His father was a bookkeeper before the Great...

The 2nd Division took Leipzig, Germany. It was heavily fortified. In Leipzig they found doorways and stairways that led...

[Annotators Note: Warren Schmitt was a forward observer in Battery B, 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion.]...

In Münster [Annotator's Note: Münster, Germany], Gerard Dillon got called to battalion [Annotator's Note: 2nd Battalion...

Ivan Bodis-Wollner's father converted to Catholicism at some point. By Hungarian law, as an under-aged child, Bodis-...

Arthur Levine was born in June 1922 in Saint Louis, Missouri with two younger half-brothers and one younger half-sister...

Fred Arthur Balfour was born in August 1923, in Glens Falls, New York. He lived there until he was 12 years old. When...

Emory Maurice Ornelles joined the Army at the Honolulu Armory [Annotator's Note: he had just witnessed Japanese planes...

For Ryan O'Brien, going into combat was like going to play a football game. The flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft...

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