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Grant Patton remembers they had to use five-gallon cans to gas the airplanes up. His plane had depth charges [Annotator...

[Annotator's Note: Wallace Yip, Sr. was drafted in 1943.] Congress started drafting 18 year olds who registered [...

David T. Morgenthaler was transferred to the Headquarters and Service Company [Annotator's Note: Headquarters and...

Russell Van Matre [Annotator's Note: assigned to G-2, military intelligence, US Army 2nd Infantry Division] continued...

Different people handle combat in different ways. Richard Willett had a cousin who was a deeply religious family man...

Leon Waldman was able to take leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] after 25...

Joseph Dean Reilly went back to work when he returned home. He could use the GI Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill,...

George Will was born in 1941 in Illinois. He has one memory of the war years. He was four years and three months old...

At Fort Benning, Georgia, Thomas J. Blakey went through communications school after he qualified [Annotator's Note: as...

Edgar R. "Ross" Forman completed basic training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He did most of his freshman term in the Army...

William Earl Gast was assigned to the 743rd Tank Battalion [Annotator's Note: Company A, 743rd Tank Battalion, 1st...

Paul Baughman jumped into Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944]...

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