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In June 1943, nearing the end of Maxwell Nelson’s deferment, he decided to join the US Merchant Marine and was sent to...

James Siracuse worked in the cellar at Western Electric for awhile. The boss never came down so he could horse around a...

Robert Whitcomb went overseas on a converted cruise liner. After arriving in Liverpool he was sent to Chelveston Air...

William Cassady went to Chicago [Annotator’s Note: Chicago, Illinois] by train. Then he went on to Great Lakes [...

Jack C. Sanders was born in 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. When he had to leave his hometown because of his work or service...

Walter Sapp was fortunate to have excellent hearing. He could hear mortars coming down. The way a mortar explodes, if...

Oscar Otto Martin remembered that on his first day in combat, they were scheduled to attack at two in the afternoon,...

Walter Gaterman joined his unit [Annotator's Note: Company C, 1st Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry...

Being a Cajun [Annotator's Note: a member of self-contained communities in southern Louisiana of French Canadian...

The forward observers were doing their "usual thing" looking for a high point when William Jucksch said they came upon...

Roswell Weil was an only child and was very close with his parents. His father had a heart attack that he did not know...

Frank Dolsen, [Annotator's Note: with the 349th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] became a...

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