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Arley Jett was born in 1922 in Breathitt County, Kentucky. He grew up in Canoe, Kentucky and near Cincinnati, Ohio....

Donald W. Bertino arrived on Utah Beach [Annotator's Note: Utah Beach was one of the two American landing beaches in...

[Annotator's Note: Eva Schloss is an Austrian born Jew who fled to Amsterdam with her family after the Nazis came to...

There was cholera, dysentery and skin illnesses [Annotator's Note: inside the Auschwitz concentration camp]. Eva...

After securing Bougainville [Annotator's Note: Bougainville, Solomon Islands], Haney Ambrose [Annotator's Note: with...

Jacob Velfling, Jr. and his unit set out for New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] to board a ship for Europe...

During the actions that led to George Sakato receiving the Medal of Honor, he wondered what he was doing here and why...

Edward Tipper enlisted in the Army. All paratroopers enlisted. None were drafted. He wanted to join the paratroopers...

The 2nd plane [Annotators Note: the 2nd kamikaze on 10 May 1945] that hit them hit the after engine room. He came in...

From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. Elements of the 40th Infantry Division heading to shore in LCVPs during...

Photograph. US troops wade through chest-deep water during an amphibious invasion. Official caption on front: "7/MM-44-...

Photograph. LVTs [Landing Vehicle, Tracked] driving from a landing craft onto a war-damaged beach; debris in foreground...

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