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The first rounds of artillery fire are often shot way over where you think the troops are and then you fire back to...

[Annotators Note: Franklin Denius was an artillery forward observer in Battery C, 230th Field Artillery Battalion, 30th...

After arriving in Casablanca in May of 1943, Clinton Riddle and the men of the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment set up a...

[Annotator's Note: George Griffenhagen served in the Army as a combat engineer first in Company E, 20th Engineer...

Herbert Heilbrun did not care which theater he fought in as long as he was a part of the war. He got into training late...

Elliot Goldstein was sent overseas to Hof, Germany for occupation duty in 1946 [Annotator’s Note: with the 94th...

Bernard Hillenbrand fought in World War 2 because he is proud to be an American. When his grandfather immigrated to...

Prior to Operation Market Garden [Annotator's Note: Operation Market Garden, 17 to 25 September 1944, Netherlands],...

They were released [Annotator's Note: from the Army Air Forces]. As soon as that happened, James Siracuse phoned his...

Vernon Ollar was born in July 1926 in Moline, Illinois and grew up in nearby Rock Island, Illinois as an only child....

Leon Bass was training in Mississippi. Black soldiers were to be given ideas about why we were fighting the war. The...

After landing at Le Havre [Annotator’s Note: Le Havre, France], Theodore R. Lee was shipped to an airstrip to be flown...

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