IN 1941, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ENTERED INTO A GLOBAL CONFLICT WHOSE SCOPE AND GRAVITY THREATENED NOT ONLY THE EXISTENCE OF FREE PEOPLES...IT CHALLENGED THE BOUNDS OF HUMANITY ITSELF. CALLED TO ITS WAR-TORN BEACHES AND SHATTERED FOREIGN SOILS WERE THOUSANDS OF NORTH DAKOTANS, FIGHTING FOR THE PROTECTION OF THEIR COUNTRY AND FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THEIR FELLOW SOLDIERS. IT WAS WORLD WAR II. THESE ARE THEIR STORIES.