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One could fire automatically from the hip. The M-1 could get muddy, wet, and whatever else and it would fire. The...

Charles Coolidge recalls the weather at Monte Cassino as being cold and rainy. Coolidge feels that had they gone with...

David Roderick was discharged as soon as the war was over. When he was home he had bad dreams and once he hit the...

John Witmeyer went to enlist in the United States military the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 8...

Carl Nygren was drafted before he graduated high school. He had to take an exam for basic English and arithmetic. He...

Marvin H. Gohlke was out of his foxhole about an hour before nightfall. He heard the Germans were firing mortars at...

Ora Hicks has had an interesting life. If anything went wrong, she did not take it to heart. There is always another...

While in a troop car going across the country, Ralph F. Lafferty shared a car with his friends Ralph and Duke. Lafferty...

Glynn G. Raby, Jr. was transferred to the 3rd Army and moved to Czechoslovakia. They arrived in pro-German territory,...

Byron Herbert Meader's most memorable experience of World War 2 was meeting up with the Russians and observing how they...

The war affected Edwin Slomka's ability to do physical things because of his leg injury. He does not think he has...

Henry Freedman was born into a poor family in Boston, Massachusetts in September 1921. His father was a World War 1...

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