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Arthur Albertson was looking forward to going overseas. He wanted to go to Europe, not to the Pacific. He went to...

After completing jump school, Manfred Steinfeld was assigned to the G2 section [Annotator's Note: intelligence section...

The Germans were good soldiers, well-trained, had good equipment, and did not want the Americans there. Thomas J....

Norman William Waldman [Annotator's Note: after being captured by the Germans after jumping on D-Day, the Allied...

Lionel Baxter trained on howitzers. They went through [Annotator's Note: training] in eight weeks because they were...

William G. Roy is proud of his role in the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway. He thinks that the...

James Smith watched the battle [Annotators Note: the battle of Gavutu] from Tulagi. [Annotators Note: Smith gets off...

Gustave Heinecke enrolled at Washington and Lee University in 1940. His roommate in 1941 was the son of a congressman...

Leon Schafer is certain the war affected his life afterwards. Number one, he never left his wife. When he got home, he...

Roy Creek thought they were well prepared for Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy,...

During the invasion of Southern France [Annotator's Note: Operation Dragoon, Provence, Southern France, 15 August 1944...

They left Fort Dix in October 1943. They sent their families home.They went to Europe on a liberty ship. The whole...

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