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John Noack’s navigator wrote a letter home in code. Noack was allowed to write two letters home per month. They were...

Ed Tunnicliff rode on a troop train that was just box cars. There was nothing in the box cars so they had nothing to...

Arthur Albertson enlisted in the Air Force. He thought that was where he was going but five days after he signed up, he...

Whiney Harris was born in August 1912 in Seattle, Washington. He attended the University of Washington and the...

[Annotator's Note: Wilson Shoughrue served in the Army as a rifleman in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 424th Infantry...

Howard Genrich had an accident while disassembling a .50 caliber machine gun. His finger was caught in the bolt and he...

George Shenkle [Annotator's Note: serving with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] remembers...

James Craig thinks the war made him grow up. Before he was in the Army, all he knew how to do was farm. He has done a...

Antonio C. Rodriquez reported to Fort Sam [Annotator's Note: Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas in September 1943...

Dan Baker’s worst combat moment occurred during his first day in battle outside of Strasburg. A German sniper fired at...

Robert Martin went to Europe [Annotator's Note: on the USS LST-515]. The first place they went to was [Annotator's Note...

Harley Reynolds notes that by one in the morning they stopped and rested. The next morning they were in position and...

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