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Wilson Shoughrue and the others went overseas aboard a British liner. The trip took about five days after which they...

[Annotator's Note: Elmer Knudsen served in the Army as a rifleman in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Regiment,...

Rothacker Smith attended North High School in Detroit, Michigan after his family moved back to the city from the...

Food was extremely scarce for Hugh Colbert and his comrades in German prison camp. Morning rations consisted of a half...

Leon Schafer has been to Europe a number of times since 68 [Annotator's Note: 1968] when all of his family went. His...

Roy Joseph Moss took a long train ride to Little Rock, Arkansas [Annotator's Note: Camp Robinson] where he received his...

Robert Eshback and the three other men of the machine gun section stood guard 24 hours a day, then they switched off....

Joseph Komito was born in the small town of Mielec, Poland. In 1939 [Annotator's Note: September 1939], the Germans...

Edward Bale did not see any particular danger to his tanks in the second and third day of combat on Tarawa except for...

Sam V. Abate would walk guard duty. The Germans would come at night with PT-Boats [Annotator's Note: E-boat; Allied...

Alfred Rodrigues saw the damage on Battleship Row about two weeks after the attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

Norman Riggsby went through maneuvers and practice landings in preparation for the invasion of France. Riggsby...

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