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Robert Jagers' daily routine [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS LST-351] consisted of standing a four-hour watch, called...

When Charles Coolidge landed in Southern France there was little opposition after the major shelling the Germans took...

George Tamburello’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was getting wounded because he thought he was going to die...

On his second voyage [Annotator's Note: as an engineering officer aboard the SS Vernon L. Kellogg], Clarke Langrall was...

Alfred Dietrick [Annotator's Note: with Company B, 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division] went...

A year after Raymond Wells was shipped to Okinawa Joyce joined him there. At the time there was very little in terms of...

Wilburn K. Ross grew up in Strunk, Kentucky. He worked on a farm until he was 18 then went to work in a coal mine but...

Armiger Jagoe fought in World War 2 because he wanted to be part of the defense of America. His experiences in the war...

Joseph Hairston was born in May 1922 in a log cabin just outside of Martinsville, Virginia. He stayed in Virginia for...

Most of the missions Darrell Welch flew were escorting B-17s [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy...

Joseph Hairston ended up going to artillery school. The rest of the Army was segregated, however, OCS [Annotator's Note...

On 9 June [Annotator's Note: 9 June 1944, during the Normandy invasion], they sent out platoons into a couple of fields...

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