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To Richard Greer the staff NCOs in the weapons company were the heroes. They had a lot of old staff NCOs that they...

A typical day [Annotators Note: in Italy during the war in 1945] started at 4:40 or 5:00 in the morning. After...

McNeil reported to Fort Belvoir [Annotator's Note: Fort Belvoir, Virginia] but that was too close to Washington D.C....

Leonard Spivey was hanging in his parachute and it was cold. Spivey was not uncomfortable because he thinks he had a...

After Paul Hilton Madden Jr. volunteered for service, he was sent from Camp Beauregard [Annotator’s Note: Camp...

Dave Severance remembers the Marine Corps having 18,000 men at the time of his enlistment. He made corporal four times...

After the fighting in the Paris area Franklin Denius and his unit boarded trucks and travelled north of Paris. The...

Freddie Ohr thought that it was an exciting mission [Annotators Note: See Freddie Ohr Segment 17]. He thought that...

William Blanckenburg wrote a book called Private Blanckenburg Goes to War. During his combat experience they had a long...

The Laffey [Annotator's Note: US Navy destroyer USS Laffey, DD-724] had new radar and sonar equipment and that put the...

They went directly into Ormoc Bay [Annotator's Note: Philippines]. Once the troops landed the kamikazes started to...

Byron Othello Wilkins saw men with different patches representing different divisions when he was captured. [Annotators...

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