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In preparing for deployment overseas, Richard Frothingham remembers that the 656th Field Artillery [Annotator's Note:...

J.M. "Jimmy" Fried, Jr.'s most memorable experience was the first battle he participated in. He was given orders to...

Philip Grass remembers that a Japanese captain was killed the first day they were there [Annotator’s Note: referring to...

John Noack lived in Port Arthur, Texas before the war. Once in a while a barnstormer would come through with a plane...

As they [Annotator's Note: John Mock and his fellow prisoners of war, or POWs] lay there, the 99th Infantry Division...

Gordon Higgins describes basic training and the evaluations performed and placements made as well as the issuance of...

Monty Joe Boitnott found out through mock ups and charts what their destination and code name were going to be before...

Romay Catherine Johnson Davis [Annotator's Note: a Private in the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion of the...

After basic training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Ralph Osterhoudt Sr. was sent by train to Baltimore, Maryland and...

Alois Kopp and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] left Saigon on a boozy flight to Calcutta. The POWs...

Paul Baughman's most important consideration about the war is he will not see combat anymore. He suffered with hip, leg...

Wayne Peer anticipated being drafted. The armed forces had few restrictions to defer service. Peer was inducted at Fort...

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