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Joseph Motil was deferred for six months and then went into the service on 22 January 1942. Motil was born on 24 July...

In March 1943, Robert "Bob" Rickel was given orders to go through gunnery school. He did not understand why he was...

Leo Terrebonne was discharged as a Private First Class [Annotator's Note: PFC] in 1946, and went back into the...

The Monuments Men group totaled about 60 men when Ettlinger was a member. They continued to be in existence even after...

Louis Liberato was sent to New Cumberland, Pennsylvania after being drafted. He was then sent from there to Fort Bragg...

Lloyd Burns was on his ninth mission when his airplane was shot down [Annotator's Note: Burns was a pilot in the 598th...

Harold Luers was about 17 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl...

[Annotator's Note: Donelson Houseman served in the Army as the 81mm mortar platoon leader in Company D, 1st Battalion,...

Edward Shames met the chief of the Dutch Undeground, John Van Kuijk, during Operation Market Garden in September 1944....

Erik Johnsen, a Cadet in the US Merchant Marine says that New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 1920s was active with all...

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

Martin Baranek saved his money and bought a grocery store and slowly learned the business. He met and married the...

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