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In October 1944, Harold Ashton deployed to Hawaii. He trained and patrolled there for a month, then flew to Tinian [...

Dominick Frank Poliseno compares his first amphibious landing in Sicily [Annotator's Note: Sicily, Italy] to the second...

Walter Henry Barton was born on in Chicago, Illinois in June 1925. He lived in Chicago until being called to active...

Vernon Baker stayed at Geiger Airfield until October 1942 when they went back to Fort Huachuca, Arizona. One day he was...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear someone walking around and using the phone throughout this segment.] When the war in Europe...

William Blanckenburg realizes that taking four months to go 26 miles was not exactly a lightning attack. He took...

Once Darrell Welch decided to become a pilot, he decided it was a good calling. He never had any trouble in flight...

Robert Clifford Pryor believes that World War 2 was the greatest thing that happened to him. He holds no animosity to...

Paul Maymon [Annotator’s Note: with the 17th Field Artillery Regiment] occupied a small German village after the war’s...

At the beginning of the war, the ships [Annotator's Note: United States Merchant Marine ships] traveled by themselves...

Albert Porche was in Italy when the war in Europe ended. The men were to be transferred to Sweden but with the end, the...

Jim Stumpfa had two four-hour watches a day [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Bangor (PF-16)]. They were on four hours...

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