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Wayne Lebsack was born in July 1925 in Great Bend, Kansas. He and his two sisters grew up in Galatia, Kansas where his...

Harold Zeringer was a participant in the assault to take the Japanese held island of Okinawa. The invasion took place...

Van Barfoot and the 45th Infantry Division went on up into the mountains around 2 January 1944. They moved out of the...

Roy Joseph Moss transitioned to the front when he joined his unit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 2nd Battalion, 142nd...

Clarence Schilperoot was still healthy after the railroad was completed. [Annotator's Note: The Burma-Thai Railway,...

Ben Steele worked two miles underground in a Japanese coal mine. It was very tight because of the way the ground...

The war changed Richard Field. Field was used to being away from home but nothing prepared him for combat. After he...

John Holton Ford was deployed to France and joined the 3rd Army [Annotator’s Note: he was a second lieutenant battalion...

Mary Edwards met Harry Truman [Annotator's Note: President Harry S. Truman] when he was a congressman in charge of the...

Walter Nelson used to fly out into the fog near the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Sometimes he flew underneath the Bay...

Lincoln D. Brennan Sr. was drafted into the armed forces and chose to serve in the Navy. He boarded a train and was...

Daniel Altman was born in June 1921 in New York City, New York. He lived in an apartment where he shared a bathroom...

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