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John McConn experienced German machine gun fire at the battle of Saint- Dié. The enemy fired their guns at the...
Murray Stein was told that when they replacde the 2nd Division [Annotator's Note: 2nd Infantry Division], they were...
Joseph Orlando knew he was a Marine immediately. In Basic Training they would be told they were better than any other...
Arnold A. Mirsky's father did not want him to join the Army Air Corps, so when he was accepted, Mirsky did not tell his...
Harold Joslin was transported from Guam directly to Japan on the Argentina Maru. [Annotator's Note: Joslin had been...
While he was a prisoner in Italy, Paul Carter nearly starved. Before leaving Rome [Annotator's Note: Rome, Italy] his...
Mary Konen worked for a Jewish dentist [Annotator’s Note: named Dr. Behrman] who performed dentistry work on German...
Carl Koone was in the Army Air Corps for another year after his return to the United States. He spent the winter [...
Robert Maxwell was transferred to the hospital in Naples, Italy. He learned about the extent of his wounds there. [...
After being wounded, Richard Keller was evacuated to a field hospital [Annotator's Note: Keller was shot by a sniper...
Thomas Tizzard was aboard the USS Denver (CL-58) when it went into dry dock to be repaired after being torpedoed. The...
Donald Draxler was brought back to Hawaii [Annotator's Note: after being wounded during the Battle of Saipan] and...
On the morning of 3 February 1945, a mortar shell dropped in the rice paddy alongside Theodore Pavlovich and he took...
Clarence Carlson enjoyed Belgium. He was able to communicate better than he did in France. They had good-looking people...
The Germans were good soldiers, well-trained, had good equipment, and did not want the Americans there. Thomas J....
Maurice Joseph Dugas, Sr. was a machinist mate and electrician on the USS Albermarle (AV-5). Their mission was to test...
Thomas J. Blakey was going up a road one day and heard a motorcycle. He went to the side of the road, saw it was a...
John Kerner took a German passenger ship overseas to Europe. He shared a stateroom with five other officers, and they...
Raymond Cauble liked to the 17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber]. He had so many hours in...
Irwin Stovroff was based in Shipdham Airfield outside of Norwich, England. Norwich was the central point for many of...
Fiske Hanley II, with his crew [Annotator's Note: with the 504th Bombardment Group, 313th Bombardment Wing, 20th Air...
Antonio C. Rodriquez flew towards the latter part of the war when few Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note: the German Air Force...
Cyril Buchert found that the typical targets were hangers and airfields with their airplanes. [Annotator's Note:...
[Annotator's Note: Warren Schmitt served in the US Army Air Forces as a gunner on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy...
Ennis C. Warren and his crew had an experienced officer fly their airplane on the first combat mission [Annotator’s...
Paul James Grubb was part of the air war in support of the fierce ground fighting in the Alps before the German forces...
When Carey Eleser was in port in Southampton, England, they were able to go into town. He would go to movies and the...
When John Mikus, Jr. enlisted in the Marine Corps, war was different than it is today. The whole country went to war....
William Wayne was drafted and went to Fort Leonard Wood in Saint Louis [Annotator's Note: Saint Louis, Missouri] for...
Marine Corps boot camp was hard, hard, and harder for Marion Meredith Beal. They would have unannounced D.I. [Annotator...
Gordon Higgins describes basic training and the evaluations performed and placements made as well as the issuance of...
Robert Riddle went to San Pedro, California for boot camp. He was excited to see the ocean for the first time, and...
Edward Chinnis enlisted in the Navy on 11 November [Annotator's Note: 11 November 1942] in Raleigh, North Carolina then...
Dossie East went to boot camp in Newport, Rhode Island, and upon graduation went directly to the Brooklyn Navy Yard and...
Marine Corps boot camp was not bad for Ed Weber. They needed bodies then, so it was not that bad. Today, boot camp is...
Irvin C. Klimas was in boot camp for six weeks. After boot camp, he had a ten day leave [Annotator's Note: an...

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