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Eveline Peardon and her siblings visited the young soldiers every day after D-Day [Annotator’s Note: the 6 June 1944...

Nobody on Omer Van Huylenbrouck's plane was ever wounded by flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire] as far...

Burton Johnson remembers when he heard of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. Harry Truman was not a surprise as...

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

Robert Christie was in combat for a few weeks before his tank was hit. They had to bail out of their tank. He was not...

Joseph Otho Goble was born near Statesville, North Carolina in September 1914. He, along with his four siblings, grew...

Charles Balaza was in Manila Bay on a minesweeper during the morning of the Pearl Harbor attack. He was returning to...

William McCowen [Annotator's Note: a member of the US Army Air Forces out of Naples, Italy] had something strange...

Deploying overseas was the first time Stegmeier had ever left the country and it was interesting for him. When they...

[Annotator's Note: Donelson Houseman served in the Army as the 81mm mortar platoon leader in Company D, 1st Battalion,...

Armando Galella's duties changed when he became battalion sergeant major, working at headquarters and answering only to...

Irvin C. Klimas and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Thompson (DD-627)] gave support to the landing forces around...

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