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Takea Iguchi and his family boarded a Japanese ship, and the Americans boarded a Swedish ship. Iguchi had a new bicycle...

Holly Rees was born in January 1926 in Prescott, Arizona. Although he grew up during the Great Depression, his father...

"Stuck in Europe," Bernard Marcantel applied to attend the American University in Biarritz, France where American...

Arthur Staymates fought through the Normandy hedgerows [Annotator's Note: after capturing the beaches of Normandy...

When Lutz Windisch pulled out of Normandy [Annotator's Note: following D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France...

Austeen Bice’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was in Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion...

Many Jewish people in the Army spoke other languages, and sometimes the words would get mixed up. Yiddish [Annotator's...

[Annotator's Note: Gerard Dillon was a platoon commander in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment...

Howard T. Maki was born in May 1925 and grew up in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. His parents were from Finland. Maki...

Second Lieutenant Irma Darphin, a nurse in the US Army, docked in Liverpool, England and went to Bishop's Lydia,...

[Annotator's Note: Virgil Clayton Moen served in the 72nd Troop Carrier Squadron, 434th Troop Carrier Group, 9th Air...

Gordon Tadewaldt was born in June 1926 in Aurora, Illinois. He was one of five children. When his father lost his job...

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