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Joseph Brannan was sent on a train to San Diego, California for boot camp after he enlisted in the United States Navy....

Gerard Dillon learned from working with General Howell [Annotator's Note: US Army Brigadier General George P. Howell]...

Edward Kissam was assigned to a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship], the SS Thomas...

Charles R. Smith went through Bastogne in Belgium [Annotator's Note: with Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 417th...

In February 1945, Manfred Bahman and his family fled Dresden [Annotator’s Note: Dresden, Germany] after the Allies had...

William Dabney and his unit dug into the sand as soon as they landed on the beach. They could not move inland until the...

James Craig was waiting to get on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] to cross to the beach [Annotator's Note...

L. Vinson Freeman, Jr., in his Army records it is Leslie V. Freeman, was born in Saint Louis, Missouri in June 1923. He...

Bernard Peters was born in March 1923 in Oakland, Oregon. He had two older brothers and two younger sisters. His father...

Ray Marvin League was the second of twins born in November 1925. There were 11 boys in the family along with two girls...

William S. Meyers, Jr. [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 929th Field Artillery Battalion, 104th Infantry Division]...

Herbert Heilbrun wore long johns under woolen pants with a warm shirt under a Mae West [Annotator's Note: inflatable...

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