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Jerome Fatora's captors, kids of 14 and 15 years old, put his platoon [Annotator's Note: Fatora was a member of Company...

Alfred Dietrick was born in December 1921 in San Antonio, Texas. His life was happy. His father was a carpenter when he...

Ardell Bollinger noticed large castles in India whereas others lived in shacks. Bollinger lived in India for about a...

Alex Carter Sr. went to boot camp in Norfolk, Virginia. He wanted to go to Vicksburg, Mississippi for welding school,...

David Paul Spencer applied promptly but they were not taking people [Annotators Note: for officer candidate school, or...

Johnnie A. Jones, Senior was born in November 1919 in Laurel Hill, Louisiana. He had three brothers and four sisters....

James E. Haynes Sr. returned home and found it a little different after being away for four years. He thought about...

Vernon Leo Tyler [Annotator's Note: in the 100th Infantry Division] had to climb ropes to get on the troopships. He...

Heywood Mason was born in August 1925 in Georgia [Annotator's Note: on Susina Plantation near Beachton, Georgia], where...

They [Annotator's Note: Leon Bass and the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion (Colored)] stopped near Weimar [Annotator's...

Robert Swift was drafted. He received his draft notice before he turned 18. He was a medic in the 71st Division [...

After moving inland following the Normandy invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France...

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