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Marvin Sussman's first combat experience took place in the village of Rocheville [Annotator's Note: Rocheville, France...

Oscar Johnson went to Kingman, Arizona for gunnery school and then to Lincoln, Nebraska to assemble the crew. From...

They were not really Russian soldiers, but they were of Ukranian descent. Standifer called them Russians. If the...

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

On 2 January 1945, Ettlinger was on a converted ship transport the Ile de France with 3,000 other men, and on 15...

Louis E. Casebonne’s most memorable experience was when he was in Marseille, France because it was very dangerous. He...

Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. bailed out of his B-17 [Annotator's Note: a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber named “...

Rankin had his own plush Gooney Bird [Annotator's Note: nickname for Douglas C-47 "Skytrain" transport aircraft] in...

Hans Siverts remembers Sunday, 7 December [Annotator's Note: 7 December 1941; the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

Rodney Charles Fraser was drafted into the Army and went through basic training at Camp Roberts in California [...

Robert Wolf went into Cologne [Annotator's Note: Cologne, or Koln, Germany]. It was a desert. There was a lot that was...

Charlie Lomax [Annotator's Note: a Naval officer in a special communications task force in the Naval Amphibious Forces...

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