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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...

Gerald West returned to the United States and went to a camp on Catalina island. There, the Marine Corps was training...

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

Abe Milkis landed on Omaha Beach during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day. Rather than entering France as a...

Norris Waddill was selected with two other men to go into the D-Day invasion. He was to accompany the 1st Infantry...

After going ashore three months after D-Day, Robert Huber's unit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 3rd Battalion, 415th...

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

Solis “Sol” Kaslow grew up in Philadelphia [Annotator’s Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]. He was drafted into the Navy...

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

Roy Creek remembered taking the bridge at Chef-du-Pont [Annotator's Note: Chef-du-Pont, France]. The bridge was intact...

In July 1944, Richard "Dick" Schneider found himself with an extremely painful wisdom tooth. The dentist had a terrible...

Ghislaine Hegerty became more responsible as a result of World War 2. She saw death and destruction during the war. She...

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