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Alfred A. Johnson, Jr. is a retired colonel of the United States Army. He was born in Jackson Barracks, New Orleans,...

The war ended on May 8th, 1945. Coincidentally it was Hairston's birthday. It was also Truman's [Annotators Note:...

Many times when Alfred Dietrick was on the front lines, he said that if he ever got out alive, he would not complain...

Charles Scheffel was wounded twice in Sicily, once in the arm and a fragment in his leg. Scheffel went back to the aid...

Arnold Horn remembers that they had to help build barracks while they slept in tents. They trained with wooden guns....

[Annotator’s Note: Video goes black at 0:11:11.000 – 0:11:18.000.] Bruce Estes [Annotator’s Note: born in Atlanta,...

The only negative thing Frederick Amore heard about the American warfare in the Pacific was when "they used that bomb...

In January or February 1942, President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt] signed Executive Order...

During the Battle of the Bulge, glider infantryman Clinton Riddle rode into battle on a tank during the American...

Dominic Martello learned that when going fast in the sand, the wheel of the half-track could be turned, but the force...

Leedell Neyland thinks sweeping for mines was his most memorable moment of the war. They swept the mines, and they knew...

In March 1944, [Annotator's Note: after completing training with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)] Helias...

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