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[Annotator's Note: Richard Field served in the Army as a paratrooper with the 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion, then...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks George Sichler how their second landing, at Salerno, Italy on 9 September 1943...

Chet Graham [Annotator's Note: Chester Earl Graham] went to Baupte [Annotator's Note: Baupte , France], one of the few...

Wynn Bauer was born Clay Center, Kansas in September 1923. He grew up on a farm. He went to a two-room school with...

Seymour Reitman was a platoon runner [Annotator's Note: in the weapons platoon of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 395th...

After spending time in Holland, Robert W. "Doby" Gibson crossed the border into Germany. There was always the danger of...

John Ericson went through a training period [Annotator's Note: after being assigned to Company B, 2nd Battalion, 194th...

Donald Rudolph Carlson was born in 1929 [Annotator's Note: in Chicago, Illinois]. Life was great growing up. His...

Peter Du Pre turned down his next deferment and joined the service. His three brothers were already in the service....

The day Kenneth H. Bailey got his draft notice [Annotator's Note: 4 November 1942] was a very bad day. He knew it was...

Andrew A. Rooney [Annotator's Note: correspondent for the Stars and Stripes, American military newspaper] did run...

William Kracov did not particularly like basic training, but he felt prepared afterward. He sailed right to Europe on...

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