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

John Singlaub wanted to be a regular Army officer after the war ended. He immediately applied for the integration of...

At the end of the war, Philip Schmidt and his unit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters Company, 8th Armored Division] could...

William Pena remembers how his battalion commander was a gung-ho, brave, and tall man who refused to stay at the rear...

Seymour Reitman was near Aachen, Germany, which was the first German city taken by the Americans. From there, he...

Robert Huber and the rest of his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 3rd Battalion, 415th Infantry Regiment, 104th...

Robert Boeke went to infantry training school which was 16 weeks of training at Fort Benning [Annotator's Note: Fort...

James Sandoz was in Germany when the war ended. He does not recall how he heard, perhaps by an officer. They were moved...

James Britt went to OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school]. He was sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma to an...

The first combat jump Norman William Waldman and his regiment [Annotator's Note: 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment,...

Different people handle combat in different ways. Richard Willett had a cousin who was a deeply religious family man...

Robert C. Engel was born in Summerdale [Annotator's Note: Summerdale, Alabama]. He was birthed by a neighbor he called...

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