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Lauren Swinney picked up words during the war like ersatz which meant a substitute for something. She recalls the pin-...

The strike groups began hitting Guam and Saipan on the 12th [Annotator's Note: 12 June 1944] in preparation for the...

Roy Joseph Moss spent time in a rehabilitation hospital [Annotator's Note: after being wounded in March 1945]. He was...

Shortly after the invasion of Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944...

Emory Maurice Ornelles felt World War 2 was the last good war. The Americans all pulled together and were united. They...

James Roland Westbrook [Annotator's Note: of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division]...

[Annotator's Note: Daniel Farley served in the Army as a rifleman in Company A, 5th Ranger Battalion.] On 9 June [...

Lieutenant John Marr crossed the bridge at La Fiere with a group of about 75 men from Company G, 507th Parachute...

The Germans had the Americans up a tree for six weeks after the landing [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion...

Harold Ronson experienced one of the most anti-Semitic incidents in his life going into Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note:...

Martin Richard's first mission was almost complete catastrophe. [Annotator's Note: He flew his firts mission on 6 June...

Leslie B. Mason, Junior was born in 1926 in Montevideo, Minnesota. He did not stay there long. His father worked as a...

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