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Around D 7 [Annotator's Note: d-day, the initial day of the operation, plus seven days; 26 March 1945; Iwo Jima, Japan...

Curtis Renner was born in Danielsville, Pennsylvania in February 1921. He was drafted into service in July 1942 and...

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

The weather was rough when Joseph Alter crossed the Channel [Annotator's Note: the English Channel on 6 June 1944]. It...

Gilbert Clift was at Camp Maxey [Annotator's Note: in Paris, Texas] for weeks without any idea where they were headed...

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

At Camp Campbell [Annotator's Note: now Fort Campbell in Oak Grove, Kentucky and Clarksville, Tennessee], Frank...

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

William Earl Gast remembers the first time he changed into new clothes. He was staying in a house and slept in the...

Henrietta Harkness [Annotator's Note: an Army nurse with the 24th Evacuation Hospital] left on D-Day [Annotator's Note...

Sol Lazinger saw his first dead American on Omaha Beach [Annotator's Note: Omaha Beach, Normandy, France] in the water...

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

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