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The interviewer notes that in the last segment Vernon Baker made a comment about an event that was his initiation into...

William C. Smith, Junior [Annotator's Note: a forward observer with the 1st Infantry Division] was loading the ships [...

Johnny Ngai did not do any special training for the landing in Southern France. They were physically fit. He only had...

Alfred Dietrick was born in 1921. [Annotator's Note: The tape breaks as Dietrick is giving his birthdate]. [Annotator's...

Odell Vaughn stepped on a shoebox mine and lost both his legs. Vaughn had collected mines in his barracks bag prior to...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear paper ruffling in the background throughout this segment.] Albert Castaing and his crew...

Freddie Ohr’s friend Leon asked him to go with him into the Air Corps. Ohr walked into a storefront that had been...

Raymond Cauble lost his crew after he was wounded and was in recovery. His crew was shot down later. Cauble was wounded...

Arthur A. Smith was born in August 1924. The war started when he was 17. He had a good idea of what his future would be...

William Blanckenburg had an upper middle class upbringing, but they struggled during the Depression. Blanckenburg was...

Rothacker Smith's family moved into his grandfather's house in Detroit before the Great Depression. There, Smith and...

[Annotator’s Note: A dog barking and other noises are audible throughout segment.] George Tamburello moved through...

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