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The caravan of trucks that took Hugh Colbert and the men of the 106th Infantry Division to the front lines stretched as...
F.M. Richard Simons was a disc jockey for a while and then had enough points [Annotator's Note: a point system was...
Richard Keller [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 148th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division] got the DSC [...
[Annotator's Note: Jacklyn Lucas served in the Marine Corps in Company C, 1st Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, 5th...
As Lieutenant John Marr was taken by boat to American positions across the Merderet River from Timmes' orchard [...
Seymour Reitman was a platoon runner [Annotator's Note: in the weapons platoon of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 395th...
The first day Dale LeBlanc was ashore on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: LeBlanc landed on Okinawa on 1 April 1945] they...
Paris Tognoli got out of high school and decided not to go to college. He got a job in a slaughterhouse, but he did not...
Vernon Leopold arrived on the Belgium and German border at the village of Hünningen. They took over a farm house that...
Sterling Mace and his platoon rode to the assault beach at Peleliu in an Amtrak [Annotator's Note: Landing Vehicle,...
Gerald Wayne Lux served in the United States Navy in the Pacific and made it to Australia and Japan. He volunteered for...
Martin J. Anschau was born in April 1925 in Plainfield Township in Northampton county [Annotator’s Note: Northampton...
Chester Hollingsworth was born on a farm in October 1917 near Greenville, Texas. He had two brothers and two sisters....
Eva Gross was born in December 1927 in Belahavo [Annotator's Note: unsure of spelling], Czechoslovakia and grew up in...
Felix J. Polito was born in Franklin, Louisiana in 1922. He lived there until he was 19 years old. In January 1942, he...
John Moran was born in Superior, Wisconsin. He had a great youth and enlisted in the Army at 17. He was then sent to...
James Bazet was born in December 1923 in New Orleans, Louisiana. When he was two years old, he was taken to live in...
The 88th Infantry Division made it into the port at Naples, and Harry Boughman moved through and crossed the Volturno...
[Annotators Note: Robert Walter was a platoon sergeant in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th...
Edward G. Willette and his division [Annotator's Note: Willette was a mortarman in Company E, 2nd Battalion, 413th...
After combat on Tinian ended and the island was secured, Ira Schilling was sent to Hawaii. First, however, he reported...
Berle Wheeler experienced Japanese air raids but slit trenches protected him from the attacks [Annotator's Note: he was...
Around D 7 [Annotator's Note: d-day, the initial day of the operation, plus seven days; 26 March 1945; Iwo Jima, Japan...
Within a few miles of Aparri [Annotator's Note: Aparri, Philippines], Leo V. Strausbaugh met up with Major Connolly [...
As soon as the artillery rounds got close, Charles Murray could not call in corrections because the batteries in his...
James Alspaugh's company [Annotator's Note: in the 102nd Infantry Division] was assigned to help in the kitchen [...
Alvin von Frisch departed Hawaii [Annotator's Note: as a member of Company C, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment,...
Claire Maddox went ashore [Annotator's Note: as a member of ACORN-21, after the Battle of Eniwetok, 17 to 23 February...
Robert Kelso crossed into Germany through the Siegfried Line and headed toward Salzburg. His unit was in Salzburg when...
On arriving in Germany on 15 September 1944, James Flannigan remembers entering a farmhouse and with some not so gentle...
Once Wayne Lebsack earned his jump wings, he was sent across the English Channel to an already secure Normandy [...
On Christmas Day 1944, William M. Barnett [Annotator’s Note: with the 222nd Infantry Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division]...
James White and the 103rd Infantry Division were transported by truck convoy deeper into France after arriving in...
Stanley James Thurston was not provided basic training. After enlistment, he was sent to a pigeon outfit [Annotator's...
James Bollich had just gotten back from the movies when he heard about the attack at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...
James Stewart Rosenbaum worked with two Navajo Code Talkers [Annotator's Note: also called Diné code talkers, one group...

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