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Harry Quinn woke up in the morning [Annotator’s Note: of 6 June 1944]. He was the third man to go down the net into...

After arriving in India by troopship, Gary Tate rode a troop train from Bombay to northeast India. It was a difficult...

Jack Thornhill and the interviewer have just been reminiscing. He can remember things that happened to him when he was...

The war did not have much of an effect on Walter Jacobs. He has never had a problem talking about it like a lot of guys...

Thomas Edward Pugh sailed into Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] and saw the damage to the ships in...

When President Harry S. Truman said the war was ended with the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...

After going ashore three months after D-Day, Robert Huber's unit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 3rd Battalion, 415th...

Jean McCreery flew under her maiden name, Terrell. She was born in Troy, Ohio in 1924 and worked at WACO [Annotator's...

After Okinawa, John Nicholas and the USS Gayety [Annotator's Note: USS Gayety (AM-239)] were sent to sweep for mines in...

Benjamin Carson had never heard of Iwo Jima before he was told that the Marines would be invading that part of Japan....

[Annotator's Note: William Earl Gast joined the Army and went to armor forces school at what was then Camp Campbell,...

Lilian Drucker graduated [Annotator's Note: from high school] in 1943 and got married on 3 September 1944. Her husband...

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