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Early life for Charles Radford was tough because of the Great Depression. He grew up in a family of eight including his...

Many of Barney Hajiro's friends died or were wounded in the Vosges Mountains of France. It was sad. The 36th Division...

When Albert Porche returned from the war, he had no expectations of being treated differently from the way he was...

Bruce LaRose was born in Pennsylvania. He remembers the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: Great Depression; a global...

Eugene Dorsey was assigned to the Navy Armed Guard and spent fourteen months in the Mediterranean on various transport...

Gowan Duffy remembers that in between battles, his unit [Annotator’s Note: the 141st Field Artillery Battalion] would...

Clifford Smith and his unit [Annotator's Note: Cannon Company, 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division] were on...

Chester L. Talley was on a fighter base in Foggia [Annotator’s Note: Foggia, Italy]. He also remembered when he heard...

Mary T. Heany was excited to be sent to Nashville [Annotator’s Note: Nashville, Tennessee]. She was asked to go on a...

Gerard Halpern finished high school in 1943 then took one semester at a City College before dropping out and joining...

When Norman Raner got in the landing craft, he was told that the driver had landed on the beach three times, so Raner...

Timothy Mahoney wanted to join the Navy because a friend of his was in the Navy. His father told him to wait until he...

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