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They were taken into the pillbox and searched [Annotators Note: after being captured by Germans near Aachen in...

William "Bill" Parker arrived in southern England where he and other soldiers began preparing for a land invasion....

On one raid, Bernard Smith remembers a plane behind them burst into flames. His first reaction was that it was pretty....

When they [Annotator's Note: Anthony Acevedo and the other former POWs from the Berga concentration camp] left Paris,...

After landing at Le Havre [Annotator’s Note: Le Havre, France], Theodore R. Lee was shipped to an airstrip. While in...

Martin Baranek stopped in Modena, Italy, where he slept on the floor in a former military academy building operated by...

Charles Taylor was assigned to the USS Absecon (AVP-23) as the catapult officer. His job was to make sure the plane was...

Originally, when Frank Mancuso entered the army he was a Catholic. This changed when the Pope said they could not bomb...

Norman Riggsby started heading for the hedgerows [Annotator’s Note: after reaching the high ground on Omaha Beach, he...

Glen Jostad was first held in a German prisoner of war camp [Annotator's Note: Stalag Luft VI in Heydekrug, Germany,...

Mort Walker was born in 1923 in El Dorado, Kansas. His father was an architect who built towns in locations where oil...

Tom Quigley remembers watching as the two platoons before his made their way down the hillside, through some fields,...

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