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Swift, Robert Life Before the Army
Robert Swift was born in August 1925. He grew up on a farm without electricity. Everything was horse drawn. The farm...
Acevedo, Anthony Life Before the Army
Anthony Acevedo was born in San Bernardino, California and spent most of his childhood in Pasadena. His father was a...
Grant, Olen "Reb" Life before the war
Olen Grant was born in Benton, Arkansas on 5 April 1923. After his father returned from World War I, he moved to Benton...
Smith, Bernard Life Changed and Changes
The war changed Bernard Smith's life like it changed everybody's. It is a different world. Up until 1945, and the...
Jameson, Andrew Life During the Bulge
Andrew George Jameson and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion, 117th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry...
Fayerman, Severin Life in a Concentration Camp
[Annotator's Note: Severin Fayerman was sent to the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp complex in German...
Colbert, Hugh Life in a POW Camp
After German forces captured Hugh Colbert and his unit from the 1st Battalion, 422nd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry...
Gaj, Leonard Life in a POW Camp
Leonard Gaj describes his feelings towards Germans as a fruit tree. There is some good fruit and some bad fruit. He was...
Zygmuntowicz, Itka Life in America
Itka Zygmuntowicz lost her whole family other than one cousin who had made it to Palestine. She does not know for...
Peardon, Eveline Life in America
Eveline Peardon moved to the United States in an effort to find work. She was 26 and out of work in Paris. She had...
Schloss, Eva Life in Amsterdam before the German Occupation
Hitler had invaded Czechoslovakia and Poland and the Allies declared war in October 1939 [Annotator's Note: Britain and...
Alexander, Joseph Life In and After Concentration Camps
Joseph Alexander went through searches with American Red Cross [Annotator's Note: Red Cross, an international non-...
Carlson, Donald Life in England
After the war, trolley missions were flown to show ground personnel the damage that had been done to Germany. Donald...
Nickerson, Edward Life in England
[Annotator's Note: Edward Nickerson flew across the Atlantic and landed in Scotland in early 1944.] Edward Nickerson...
Swarts, John Life in England
John Stanley Lee Swarts and his crew received orders to fly overseas to England, making one stop in Iceland. They...
Dullnig, Roland Life in England
Roland Dullnig [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 668th Bombardment Squadron, 416th Bombardment Group, 9th Air Force...
Scully, William Life in England
William Scully [Annotator’s Note: serving with Company C, 1st Battalion, 406th Infantry Regiment, 102nd Infantry...
Tindal, Sullivan Life in Europe to Postwar Life
Sullivan Tindal recalls an instance when his superior officer would not give him enough K rations [Annotator's Note:...
Lombardo, Samuel Life in Fascist Italy
Samuel Lombardo saw that life was getting tougher and tougher under Mussolini [Annotator's Note: Italian Fascist...
Jaffe, Stanley Life In France
Dr. Stanley Jaffe had a lot of fun as a bachelor [Annotator's Note: while serving on a mobile surgical team with the...
Morgenthaler, David Life in Italy
David T. Morgenthaler was transferred to the Headquarters and Service Company [Annotator's Note: Headquarters and...
Giamberardino, Alfiero Life in Italy During the War
Alfiero Giamberardino was born in May 1936 near Rome [Annotator's Note: Rome, Italy]. The American and British bombers...
Weil, Roswell Life in Liverpool
[Annotator's Note: Roswell Weil was assigned to the 68th Quartermaster Depot near Liverpool, England to prepare for the...
Leskovic, Elvia Life in Nazi Germany
Elvira Maria Katarina Algermissen Leskovec's sister wanted to study medicine, but it was not permitted at the time and...
Johnsen, Erik Life in New Orleans
Erik Johnsen, a Cadet in the US Merchant Marine says that New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 1920s was active with all...
Martin, Robert Life in New Orleans
Robert Martin got his tattoo when he was on a ship with three other guys. They were in Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston...
Kopp, Alois Life in POW Camps
Alois Kopp was aboard the USS Houston (CA-30) defending Java when the ship was sunk. He survived and was taken prisoner...
Bueker, Robert Life in Prison Camp
Robert Bueker [Annotator's Note: while a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft I in Barth, Germany] was treated quite well by...
O'Donnell, Joseph Life in Prison Camp
[Annotator's Note: Joseph O'Donnell was a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft IV near Gross Tychow, Pomerania, now Tychowo,...
Heming, Barbara Life in Schleswig-Holstein
Germany was changing for the better at that time. Barbara Heming's mother still had to work but was no longer working...
Doolan, Robert Life in Stalag Luft III
Robert Doolan was in the oldest camp [Annotator's Note: Stalag Luft III in Zagań, Poland]. It had been abused by the...
Baum, Irving Life in Stalag Luft III
One of the more onerous jobs for Irving Baum [Annotator's Note: as a prisoner of war at Stalag Luft III in Sagan,...
Higgins, Malcom Life in Stalag Luft III and the Great Escape
They [Annotator's Note: Malcolm Higgins and his fellow prisoners being held in Stalag Luft III] got a chance to build...
Mock, John Life in Stalag XII-A
John Mock ended up at Stalag XII-A [Annotator's Note: in Limburg, Germany]. The latrine in the camp overflowed every...
Albright, William Life in Stalag XVII
[Annotator's Note: William Albright was interrogated in Frankfurt, Germany after being shot down in late November 1943...
Zygmuntowicz, Itka Life in Sweden
After being liberated from Malchow [Annotator's Note: the Malchow concentration camp in Malchow, Germany, a sub-camp of...

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