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Marvin Perrett was born in September 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was on his way home from church with his...

Norman Raner enlisted on 18 May 1941. He went to Port Des Moines [Annotator's Note: Port of Des Moines, Iowa] and then...

At one time in North Africa there was a big tank battle going on. Carl Peterson was up in the mountains and could see...

A typical day [Annotators Note: in Italy during the war in 1945] started at 4:40 or 5:00 in the morning. After...

Anna Maria Giamberardino was born in May 1931 in Ventimiglia, Italy, near France. Her father worked for the railroad,...

When the American troops landed in Sicily, Lawrence Richard "Red" Gilbert recalls receiving heavy fire from the...

The war in Europe ended for Clifford Smith, but he soon heard his division [Annotator's Note: at this time, Smith was...

Gowan Duffy had a bazooka [Annotator's Note: man-portable recoilless anti-tank rocket launcher weapon] up on the hill....

Alex Vraciu wanted to fly fighters. If he had not been given fighters when he was going through training at Corpus...

Eugene Dorsey’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when a German POW [Annotator’s Note: prisoner of war] fell...

Bruce LaRose [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division in Normandy after...

Robert Tyler Oakes recalls that the prisoners had a homemade radio that they hid from the German guards while he was in...

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