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Julian Siebert was drafted in May 1942. The next year was very long. He had his basic training in Camp Hood in Texas....

Alexander White enlisted in the U.S. Army and was sent to Fort Sam Houston in Texas. There he met his wife, a native of...

Ed Tunnicliff describes his first combat experience. At the front was a German pilot they called Bed Check Charlie. The...

Fred Arthur Balfour [Annotator's Note: with SHAEF – Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force] would watch the...

James E. Haynes Sr. remembers before overseas deployment being in a PX [Annotator's Note: post exchange] in...

The war did not change John Bache-Wiig, Jr. He expected what happened and he applied his Eagle Scout Annotator's Note:...

Baldwin was born on 7 February 1922 in Jasper, Alabama. His family moved to Birmingham in 1928 when he was 6 years old...

Lewis Thomas Easterling flew his last mission on 17 December 1944. One of the squadrons found a whole group of trains...

Richard Candelaria and his German guards were becoming friends. The guards gave him cognac. The guards put him in a van...

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

Neither Nicholas J. Zuras nor his crew were told about the Normandy invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied...

David Roderick moved to the coast near Weymouth and was put into a marshalling yard. They were kept in secret. No one...

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