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[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks slowly and pauses several times throughout segment.] Vernon Ollar was inducted at...

The first time somebody shoots at you, the bullet pops when it goes past your head. Robert E. Foster remembers that...

Oscar Otto Martin was born in Watseka, Illinois in June 1924. He was the oldest of three siblings. His only brother...

Adolph Edward Asher was in training as a soldier when he heard about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

[Annotators Note: Robert Walter was a platoon sergeant in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th...

Charles Coolidge discusses his reunion with his family. When he got to Camp Atterbury he went to the Top Sergeant and...

John J. Witmeyer, known all his life as JJ, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1921. He lived in only two different...

A great deal of camaraderie had been established in the unit, especially among the guys Fred Hirsekorn had been in the...

Kaare Allan Johnson's unit [Annotator's Note: 596th Parachute Combat Engineer Company, 517th Parachute Infantry...

John L. Cowan was asked to teach incoming recruits how to handle a Garand rifle [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-...

The first time Jack Weiss returned to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California]; an English ship was...

The war changed Jesse Schraub’s life. He changed his career path from chemical engineering to accounting. He also...

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