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Cecil K. Bell was born in February 1922 and grew up in Hugo, Oklahoma. He had four sisters and two brothers. His father...

Henry Freedman was a member of an intelligence and reconnaissance unit [Annotator's Note: Intelligence and...

George Grugett was born in McConnell, Tennessee which no longer exists. His father worked for the railroad. He moved...

Johannes Aalders and his friends would run around after school and see if there were things they could steal. They made...

Heywood Mason [Annotator's Note: a Private 1st Class in the US Army 88th Infantry Division] dug foxholes, and when rain...

[Annotator’s Note: A washing machine running in the background is audible throughout this segment.] Gerald “Gerry”...

In the Fall 1942, Stanley Boyd Nance was drafted out of Salt Lake City [Annotator’s Note: Salt Lake City, Utah] and...

Robert Harris appreciated being an American much more after his experiences in the Second World War. He had thought...

When James Nannini was a BAR [Annotator's Note: M1918A2 Browning Automatic Rifle] gunner, he shot a German off a...

By 21 March [Annotator's Note: 21 March 1945], the American forces were getting close so John Mock and his fellow...

Robert Rans recalls that his first mission was to Messina, Sicily and he remembers being scared as he saw the wall of...

They left Fort Dix in October 1943. They sent their families home.They went to Europe on a liberty ship. The whole...

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