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Olin Pickens sailed overseas and arrived at Oran, North Africa on 26 January 1943. The men with whom Pickens had...

Ralph F. Lafferty took over a company that had been pinned down. The original officer had been wounded in the face and...

Charles Scheffel was wounded twice in Sicily, once in the arm and a fragment in his leg. Scheffel went back to the aid...

The day of the Normandy invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944],...

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

Frank Finklang's most memorable experience of the war was when he found out that his crew members were missing in...

Dominic Martello learned that when going fast in the sand, the wheel of the half-track could be turned, but the force...

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

The war was a challenging experience for Edgar De Pue Osgood. There are other ways of getting those challenges, like...

On the ship, Ivan Van der Pool took part in a seminar where the officers told them their mission. He boarded his troop...

Jack Cohen says that today we hear a lot about tolerance. To him, there is a great difference between tolerance and...

Barney Hajiro fought in Northern Italy. Hajiro was the messenger for Company M [Annotator's Note: Company M, 3rd...

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