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Vernon Grimes was born in May 1921 in Wichita [Annotator's Note: Wichita, Kansas]. He grew up with a sister in various...

Wesley S. Mullen underwent basic training at Fort Riley, Kansas. He was assigned to the horse cavalry, but it was soon...

Harley Harned’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was the trip over to Europe and the ship having to zig-zag [...

William Scully was shipped to Fort McClellan in Alabama for training. He was taught infantry work such as rifles and...

Josephine Pescatore remembers pot belly stoves at the end of the tent which kept the whole tent warm. One evening a...

The English Navy provisioned the Canadian sailors' mess and Thomas Payn said they ate a lot of strong smelling mutton....

Meade Willis dug a foxhole, which was always the first thing he did when he arrived somewhere. Mortars [Annotator's...

[Annotator's Note: John Angier was a prisoner of war in Stalag VII-A in Moosburg, Germany.] The German forces held even...

Paul James Grubb was part of the air war in support of the fierce ground fighting in the Alps before the German forces...

Melvin Dahlberg was in the battle for Hill 1098 [Annotator's Note: part of Maritime Alps in Southern France]. They were...

Once they finished gunnery training, Leon Waldman and the men he was training with were put into crews. He was in the...

Howard Genrich experienced his first battle on 7 December [Annotator's Note: 7 December 1944] when they captured a town...

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