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Don Carter's most memorable experience of World War 2 is the invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of...

Monroe S. Wolyn remembers everyone was happy to be liberated. A bomb group flew in with B-17s [Annotator's Note: Boeing...

Vernon Leopold arrived on the Belgium and German border at the village of Hünningen. They took over a farm house that...

The war changed Bernard Smith's life like it changed everybody's. It is a different world. Up until 1945, and the...

Itka Zygmuntowicz was born in April 1926 in Ciechanów, Poland. It was a small town. They lived in two different places...

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

Edward Thomas Toole wanted to join the Naval Air Force but he could not make it. The Navy appealed to him more than any...

Cosmo Uttero loaded onto a ship and in three days he was in Glasgow, Scotland [Annotator's Note: in November 1943]....

After the kamikaze hit the ship it was the end of the war for the crew. She came back to the states on her own power....

William Pena remembers how nervous his truck driver was when they left. He ate a big breakfast with his men at the...

When he deployed, Ubert Labat was among 14,000 troops on the Queen Mary [Annotator's Note: RMS Queen Mary], including a...

Frank Ramsey remembers the whole crew went on the troop ship together. [Annotator’s Note: He was being shipped to...

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