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Sent to Keesler Field in Biloxi, Mississippi, Frederick Amore spent two months in basic training before volunteering to...

Raymond Wells' younger brother was an Armed Guard on a Merchant Marine ship in the Pacific. Wells recognizes what a...

John Shirley [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division] was not in...

Harley Reynolds was one of the first people under fire during the invasion of North Africa. Reynolds saw fighting on...

Thomas W. Stevenson Jr. served with the 772nd Bombardment Squadron, 463rd Bombardment Group, 5th Bombardment Wing,...

Roland Chaisson was born in 1924 in Thibodaux, Louisiana. He went to high school there and played football until he...

elias Doundoulakis was born in Canton, Ohio in July 1923. He grew up with one older brother, George. He was raised by...

Leedell Neyland worked under Captain Miller. They served as escorts in 1942 in the Caribbean Sea. They would pick up...

Rothacker Smith suffered from pains in his foot. In the Army, they would play with the explosives out of hand grenades...

Edward LaPorta was a halftrack driver during his first battle. He remembers that they had nothing to fight with except...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Darrell Welch to explain how missions escorting bombers went for him.] They...

F.M. Richard Simons had infantry training at Camp Wheeler, Georgia [Annotator's Note: in Macon, Georgia]. On the rifle...

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