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Theodore Finkbeiner and the paratroopers he was with started heading toward Gela. Whenever they heard shooting they...

John L. Cowan does not remember much about his time in the military. It was not very exciting. Cowan decided to serve...

Leonard Lomell remembers that the Battle of Normandy lasted for two and half months. As the beachhead grew to be larger...

Darold Rice stated “I grew up,” when asked by the interviewer how the war changed his life. He came back with a renewed...

James "Jim" Geisler was in the Panama Canal when he learned of the Japanese surrender [Annotator's Note: Victory Over...

Emory Maurice Ornelles [Annotator's Note: in the 90th Infantry Division] was working with tanks when a driver asked him...

George Warner was told that blackouts were enforced because there might be enemy airplanes in the vicinity, although he...

Alexander Marsh was born in November 1922, one of eight children, on a farm in Hardee County, Florida. As a young man,...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with a conversation regarding how the interview is going to be accomplished.]...

Harry Quinn woke up in the morning [Annotator’s Note: of 6 June 1944]. He was the third man to go down the net into...

Getting captured was Jerome Fatora's most memorable experience of the war. He feels he was part of the greatest...

When the war ended, Thomas Ballew's unit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters, 231st Searchlight Battalion] was in Furth...

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