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While he was with the 21st Marine Regiment [Annotator's Note: Smith was a member of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 21st...

Meade Willis would only be given one slice of bread, while the German prisoners would have all they wanted. He asked to...

Micha Tomkiewicz was born in May 1939 in Warsaw, Poland. He was an only child as his parents were young when he was...

Herbert Siebert was born in April 1925 in Saint Louis County, Missouri. He was one of five siblings; his father died...

Lawrence John Lejeune left the Merchant Marine and returned home. His sister waited for him at the bus stop. His most...

Thomas Ard Sylvest landed on Iwo Jima, Japan shortly after the United States had secured the island. His squadron [...

Leo William Schmittgens was finally able to return home [Annotator's Note: after seven months of occupation duty in...

Clarence Derrington and his fellow prisoners of war, POWs, were elated to be unexpectedly liberated. The POWs remaining...

On his first day at sea, Robert Powers got seasick. One of his friends, Ned Meloney, played for the 49ers [Annotator's...

William Burrus used the G.I. Bill to attend the University of Alabama [Annotator's Note: in Tuscaloosa, Alabama]. The G...

In early March [Annotator's Note: March 1944] Harold Shook went on a special mission to bring three guys up to New York...

Frank Campisano was told he would be invading an island and boarded a ship the Monday before Easter [Annotator's Note:...

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