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Johnny Allegrezza was born in Mississippi in January 1923. He went to school through the ninth grade. His parents...

Crain watched about the first 10 minutes of the movie "Saving Private Ryan." He is normally able to keep his emotions...

Anthony Acevedo started his diary a little at a time. He entered information about what was happening in his area. They...

Frank Ramsey remembers they had spam sandwiches and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches [Annotator’s Note: to eat while...

In 1956, the Hungarian Revolution [Annotator’s Note: 23 October to 10 November 1956] started. Eva Nathanson was told to...

Leahr got quite a bit of mail from home. Mail was important to him. He had three brothers in the service. One brother...

Curt Simmons was in New Orleans on VJ-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day]. In order to get discharged, the...

[Annotator's Note: The audio level of this interview is very low.] After his discharge [Annotator's Note: in May 1946...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was assigned to the Tank Landing Ship, USS LST-502 for the invasion of Europe.] Because...

Mann was initially sent to Camp Lee, Virginia where he got his uniforms and his vaccination shots. He then took 17...

David Roderick had to keep the lane open in Cherbourg for Patton and the 3rd Army. He also helped stop Hitler’s counter...

Thomas Payn discussed how the allied ships detected U-boats [Annotator's Note: German submarines], and what happened...

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