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Clayton Kelly Gross recalls getting to England and the bombing going on from there. They were assigned to the 9th Air...

Billow remembers going through France, Holland, and Luxemburg. The cities were destroyed by aerial bombardment. There...

Returning home and being discharged from the Marine Corps was bittersweet for Edgar Cole. At the time prejudice was...

On 2 January 1945, Ettlinger was on a converted ship transport the Ile de France with 3,000 other men, and on 15...

Fred Hirsekorn started out as a gunner on an M4 Sherman medium tank. He had made PFC by the end of basic training. He...

Arthur Killam was born in San Francisco and lived there until he was six years old when he moved to San Jose,...

Lazarick was born in Camden, New Jersey in 1923. In those days Camden was a nice city with many large manufacturing and...

Louis Zamperini thought that the mission [Annotator's Note: to bomb Wake Island] was a piece of cake because they were...

Robert Kean picked the Army because the only ROTC [Annotator's Note: Reserve Officer Training Corps] at Princeton [...

For the first battle of the Matanikau, James Smith and the Raiders were going to go up the river and 1st Battalion, 7th...

Munich had a lot of hits because the railroad yards were in the middle of the city. There was a lot of damage from...

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