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Raymond Wells was born in Eagle, Colorado in April 1922. He was living in Secora, New Mexico and remembers the day the...

John Lawler never doubted the United States would win the war, but did not know how long it would take. He received...

Ralph “Bud” Ginrich made a few friends in the prison camps [Annotator’s Note: he had been captured at Sidi Bou Zid,...

Vernon Baker retired in Idaho. One day he got a call from Professor Gibran at Shaw University. He asked what Baker knew...

Alexander Jefferson listened to the BBC [Annotator's Note: British Broadcasting Corporation] radio at the POW [...

James Nerison learned how to handle the boat [Annotator's Note: PT boat], fix the engine, and operate the radio...

Norman Kinsey felt the operation he was in was not going anywhere. A call came out for a cadre to form a new...

Harley Reynolds recognizes that the invasion [Annotators Note: the invasion of Sicily] was fairly easy in terms of...

James Read Kirk was born in September 1924 in Watseka, Illinois. His parents moved to the Detroit area [Annotator's...

After high school, Ralph F. Lafferty went mountain climbing with his brothers. During that summer, he worked at a ranch...

While he was a prisoner in Italy, Paul Carter nearly starved. Before leaving Rome [Annotator's Note: Rome, Italy] his...

Clarence Edward "Ed" Riggs, Jr., joined the service because he wanted to fly. He chose the Army Air Corps because he...

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