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Albert Porche was born in Houma, Louisiana in 1922. He has spent his life in Houma except for during the war. Life in...

Joseph Hochadel was wounded in his left leg and had one surgery to fix it. He was in the hospital for approximately a...

[Annotator's Note: Walter Henry Barton took part in intensive training from his arrival at Camp Adair, Oregon from...

After training, Shiyuza Hayashi was sent to Oran in Africa [Annotator's Note: with the 100th Infantry Battalion,...

Alexander Jefferson listened to the BBC radio at the POW camp, but had no idea about the landings in Southern France....

[Annotator's Note: Ivan Van der Pool points on a map to various locations he saw in North Africa.] Ivan Van der Pool...

Nicholas Ventura Sr. [Annotator’s Note: with the 351st Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division] crossed the Arno...

Charles Coolidge passed through Rome and went as far as Roccastrada where the Germans turned and surrounded the...

Gowan Duffy remembers the waters were still rough from the storm the day before. As they hit the shore [Annotator’s...

Jennings Paul Hill, Sr. learned the war had ended by radio. The ships were having a big time and celebrating. The weird...

Edgar De Pue Osgood was on anti-submarine and escort duty [Annotator's Note: as a navigator in Patrol Bombing Squadron...

After the war, Jim Stumpfa got Grace [Annotator's Note: a Navy girlfriend] a hotel room when she came to visit [...

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