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Norman Raner was born in November 1917 near Guthrie Center, Iowa. He went to high school and then worked in a CC Camp [...

When Johnny Ngai was fighting in Sicily [Annotator's Note: Sicily, Italy], there were so many soldiers coming over, he...

Edward C. Cole was born in December 1918 and grew up in Bordentown, New Jersey during the Depression [Annotator's Note...

Jack Cohen finished high school and his father wanted him to study cosmetic chemistry in order to take over the family...

Raymond Cauble's first mission was to a concentration camp in Yugoslavia. A general went with Cauble. They dropped...

Odell Vaughn stepped on a shoebox mine and lost both his legs. Vaughn had collected mines in his barracks bag prior to...

Arthur A. Smith was born in August 1924. The war started when he was 17. He had a good idea of what his future would be...

Bruce LaRose [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division] would go out to do...

Rothacker Smith's family moved into his grandfather's house in Detroit before the Great Depression. There, Smith and...

Frank Mancuso’s unit went back to Naples to get more replacements and newer landing craft, landing onshore without...

Robert Madison was born in Cleveland, Ohio in July 1923, one of four sons of an educated black man, who held "all sorts...

Karl Friedrich "Charley” König [Annotator's Note: or Koenig] does not remember much about arriving in Norfolk [...

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