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James Moore

WWII | 2nd Armored Division

James Moore hazards the cold to bring tanks to the front during the Battle of the Bulge. (1:37)
James Moore lands at Omaha beach on D+2 and recounts the journey from Normandy, to Berlin, and back home. (5:51)
James Parish

WWII | Company E, 2nd Battalion, 104th Infantry Division

James Parish volunteered for the US Army on November 17th, 1942. He went to Camp Adair in Oregon for his training, and also endured desert training. At one point during training, he became a cook for the rest of the men. (2:45)
Parish talks about going overseas for the first time, and arriving in Cherbourg, France. While there he remained as the company's cook. He remembers being under artillery fire, and crossing the Rhine River. (3:48)
Parish recalls events from the Battle of the Bulge, the weather patterns they had, as well as how everyone reacted to the end of the second world war. (3:35)
James Richardson

WWII | 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), Merrill's Marauders

As soon as James Richardson was drafted in 1942, he was being singled out and given tests for various things. They must have seen something special in him because he would go on to be a member of Merrill's Marauders, famed for their brave actions in Burma. (5:40)
After his basic training, James Richardson was sent to Trinidad, where there was concern about a possible German refueling station in the Caribbean. That didn't pan out but the word went through his unit that volunteers were being sought for an unspecified "rugged mission." Single men only. (7:22)
Why volunteer for an unknown "rugged mission" in an unknown location? James Richardson thought he might get an overdue furlough. That didn't happen and he wound up in India, where the people and the wildlife were unlike anything he'd ever seen. As he marched toward the Himalayas, he was told to drop something he'd carried every day in the Army. (5:33)
When James Richardson got to the jungles of Burma, he was tapped to be a messenger. He got a little nervous about approaching the lines in the dark, but the communication was good and he was OK on his own in the dark with his Thompson ready to go. The shadowy unit finally found themselves cut off by the Japanese and trapped in the village of Napumga. (6:53)
He didn't hear or see the source, but a piece of shrapnel hit James Richardson in the shoulder. He begged a reluctant buddy to dig it out with a knife, then got it dressed by a medic. He was told he could be evacuated, but that wasn't the way the way men thought in this particular unit. (4:35)