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Roland Chaisson was in the 1st Division [Annotator's Note: US Army's 1st Infantry Division] in Company B, 16th Infantry...
Don Bowling trained with rifles, machine guns, and mortars. He landed on Omaha [Annotator's Note: Omaha Beach, Normandy...
[Annotator's Note: William Leibold served in the Navy as a Chief Boatswain's Mate and made all five war patrols aboard...
Clyde Barber was born in May 1924 in Drennan, Colorado. Each of his five brothers and one sister were born in different...
[Annotator's Note: Gale Ammerman crash-landed his glider on D-Day, Normandy, France 6 June 1944 and made his way back...
Herbert Heilbrun was not working the day Pearl Harbor occurred [Annotator's Note: on 7 December 1941]. On that Sunday...
[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks very slowly throughout this segment.] While Taylor Howard was in the Army, the...
Richard Scheerer never wrote any of his men after he was wounded and sent home and none of his men wrote him. He did...
In the months leading up to the United States' entry into the war, the country was isolationist. Fredrick Hollis was...
The 2nd Infantry Division came back from fighting in Europe in the latter part of 1945. They went to Camp Swift, Texas...
Arthur Spaulding was in charge of a gun [Annotator's Note: in 2nd Platoon, Company B, 91st Chemical Mortar Battalion]....
James Sandoz was drafted in 1943. He was at school when Japan invaded [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl...
F. Lincoln Grahlfs partially understood what Operation Crossroads [Annotator's Note: a pair of nuclear weapons tests...
Charles Moore had his next major mission when he participated in the invasion of Southern France. [Annotator’s Note:...
From Carentan [Annotator's Note: Battle of Carentan, 10 to 14 June 1944, Carentan, France], Bradford Clark Freeman...
Eduardo Alberto Peniche Carvajal remarked that the decisions made by some of the commanders caused Operation Market...
Harold Paul [Annotator's Note: a paratrooper in Company A, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division]...
Three weeks after D-Day [Annotator's Note: the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944], Robert Curl was...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Wesley Carroll how important it is for current and future generations to learn...
Lawrence Richard "Red" Gilbert was born in April 1921 in Farmington, New Hampshire. He had an older sister and younger...
Lloyd Dendy thinks that they shot several [Annotator's Note: Japanese] aircraft down while on Woodlark Island. There...
Philemon Andrews Saint Amant went to North Carolina for OSS [Annotator's Note: Office of Strategic Services; pre-runner...
Warren Schmitt was born on 18 March 1921 in Hutchinson, Kansas. He had a younger brother named Gene who also served in...
Billy P. Bassett was assigned to the 11th Armored Division soon after receiving his wings [Annotator's Note: in the...
Grover Tyner was attending Mercer University [Annotator’s Note: in Macon, Georgia], but was in Forsyth, Georgia eating...
Alan Moskin did his Army basic training in Florida, went home on furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for...
Irwin Medway was sent to Colorado Springs to Camp Carson [Annotator's Note: now Fort Carson, Colorado Springs, Colorado...
Mason Dorsey was at Fort Benning [Annotator's Note: Fort Benning, Georgia] when he found out he was going overseas. He...
Robert E. Foster went on maneuvers [Annotator's Note: with Company L, 3rd Battalion, 376th Infantry Regiment, 94th...
Edgar De Pue Osgood and his squadron [Annotator's Note: Patrol Bombing Squadron 111 (VPB-111)] were in Florida when...
Kenneth H. Bailey deployed overseas in December 1943. He spent Christmas in Singleton, England. They spent six months...
Harry A. Donovan was assigned to a transport ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Leon (APA-48)] and trained for a month on...
Matthew A. Reluga's older brother Charles was an MP [Annotator's Note: military police]. Once Reluga got get a break in...
Clarence Edward "Ed" Riggs, Jr. reported to Langley Field, Virginia. He practiced a lot of formation flying, air to...
Meyer Levin was sent to Europe after graduating [Annotator's Note: after he completed officer candidate school] at Fort...
Thomas Creekmore went overseas [Annotator's Note: in 1945], and he was an eager beaver. His pilot [Annotator's Note: in...

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