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Charlie Lomax was in the Reserves [Annotator's Note: US Naval Reserve] about eight years. That was mostly training one...

Chester Strunk was recruited and enlisted [Annotator's Note: in June 1942] but then told to return to college and await...

Marvin Sussman's first combat experience took place in the village of Rocheville [Annotator's Note: Rocheville, France...

William Kracov did not particularly like basic training, but he felt prepared afterward. He sailed right to Europe on...

In 1944,Vernon Schmidt began his military training with a cannon company on the 105mm howitzer [Annotator's Note: M2A1...

Milton Muelder had been stationed in London, England until the Allied troops moved into France, after which he was...

Bernard Hillenbrand does not recall too much of when he landed on Omaha Beach [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied...

Frank Curtis McBride installed the bombsight [Annotator’s Note: Norden bombsight] in the twin engine Martin bombers [...

Woods did well in school. He could have gone on to any of the advanced training schools but he volunteered to go out as...

Floyd Horne flew a lot of missions before his D-Day missions [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of Normandy, France on...

A neighbor of John Scott Campbell's had gone to sea. He would come home and tell sea stories and that sounded good....

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