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Rob Roy Ratliff joined the Marine Corps and trained with some of the Navajo code talkers. He received a ten day leave [...

James B. Jones was born in March 1922 in Laurel [Annotator's Note: Laurel, Mississippi]. His father worked for a white...

W. P. “Bill” Allen was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee in May 1925. He was raised in Murfreesboro and went to school...

John J. Connelly’s most memorable experience of the war was during night training at Biggs Field [Annotator’s Note:...

Ferrier was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts. His father died and was buried on his 13th birthday. His...

[Annotators Note: Lou Brissie served in the army as an infantryman in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 351st Infantry Regiment...

Billy Grieves made 11 runs on the submarine Thresher [Annotator's Note: USS Thresher (SS-200)]. He left the Thresher...

Kalil did not think he was going to survive after seeing all the Germans in the town. All he remembers from getting hit...

Darold Rice says that soon after he was retired from the war and was taken to a hospital in Luxembourg. He ate, slept,...

Zawada tried to run when he got hit, but he no idea how badly injured he was [Annotator's Note: during the Hammelburg...

Roger Shaw was changed by World War 2. The war changed the world. Shaw had never been on a boat before, and that was a...

Richard Ford was in Panama City when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He was in a bar when he found out. Panamanian police...

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