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Kenneth R. Williams was born in Alton, Illinois in March 1922. He was an only child. He grew up in Illinois and Ohio....

Charles Coolidge took sheep into a minefield instead of sending men through it to be sure there were no mines. Early in...

William Cassady remembers Saipan [Annotator’s Note: Battle of Saipan, Mariana Islands; 15 June to 9 July 1944] was...

Fred Whitaker learned to make lists of things to do from the Army. The Army had an intensity he had never experienced...

William Curtis packed up his stuff and went to the naval base. He reported to Coast Guard section officer there who...

Ray League never heard about the Holocaust prior to entering the Army. He did not want to know, but the Germans knew....

Frank Jasicko’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was bailing out of an airplane for the first time and the fear...

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

A week or so after they [Annotator's Note: Floyd Dumas and another escaped prisoner of war named Bill Robb] got there,...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Rupp was in Consdorf, Luxembourg with the 3rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion, 9th Armored...

John Luckadoo had no regrets about returning to the United States after completing his 25 combat missions. The brass...

Donald Lewis was in the bottom of a lifeboat that was crowded [Annotator's Note: after the SS Athenia was struck by a...

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