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Theodore Finkbeiner jumped into Sicily on the first night of the invasion [Annotator's Note: 9 July 1943]. His plane...

Gerald “Gerry” Gustafson and his company [Annotator’s Note: Cannon Company, 442nd Regimental Combat Team] saw combat in...

James Fitzmorris joined the military because he felt it was a responsibility to serve. He could not have stood on the...

The ship Melvin Abadie was assigned to [Annotator's Note: USS Appalachian (AGC-1)] was one of 18 ships that took troops...

Helen Gagel got off the boat and went by train to be signed off [Annotator’s Note: discharged]. She took another train...

Henry Langrehr was told about the D-Day [Annotator's Note: Allied invasionm of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944] plans....

Milton Meulder explained how George C. Marshall, as an aide to General John J. Pershing during The Great War [Annotator...

When the 19th General Hospital was replaced at Le Mans Elizabeth Gibbens' unit moved on to Paris and then to Nancy,...

Quarters on the USS Boston (CA-69) were nice according to J. L. Giroir. Bunk beds were stacked six high and food was...

Also memorable to William Jucksch was meeting a Russian field outfit, similar to his own forward element, coming from...

The war changed Bernard Smith's life like it changed everybody's. It is a different world. Up until 1945, and the...

Anderson Wilson was on leave in Paris [Annotator's Note: Paris, France] when the war ended. When they had first arrived...

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