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It was during the Great Depression that Milton Muelder and his brother went to Germany to study in 1930 and 1931. At...

George H. Roxandich completed basic training. While there, he got sick with 104-degree fever which was upsetting...

After Carrol Joy arrived in England, he was sent by train to Ashford Kent. They may have been the closest base to the...

Aschaffenburg, Germany was secured quickly. The Germans sent word that they wanted to surrender but would only do so to...

Children only went to school for three months each year. After he finished school, Johnnie A. Jones, Senior's brother,...

Edwin Slomka was born in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] in January 1926. He grew up with an older...

W. P. “Bill” Allen was a Navy medic assigned to the USS LST-523 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank]. The LST had two...

John Sacks was in a camp [Annotator's Note: Stalag Luft I in Barth, Germany] with four compounds that housed about 9,...

Monty Joe Boitnott was wounded when he was bringing supplies on a mule and a mortar shell hit the path. The mule went...

On Christmas Eve [Annotator's Note: 24 December 1944], James B. Jones had finished a skirmish with Germans. That...

In January 1945, Robert Lewis Beilman and his unit [Annotator's Note: 1st Battalion, 242nd infantry Regiment, 42nd...

James E. Haynes Sr. remembers before overseas deployment being in a PX [Annotator's Note: post exchange] in...

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