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Walter Bala enjoyed going to his bomb group [Annotator's Note: Bala was a member of the 732nd Bombardment Squadron,...

Josefine "Piepsi" Joyce went to work outside Vienna, Austria for the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note: German Air Force]....

Howard Genrich experienced his first battle on 7 December [Annotator's Note: 7 December 1944] when they captured a town...

Jesse Wofford wanted to go to medical school when he got out of the service so he spent a year before his discharge...

Jerome "Jerry" Riga graduated from high school and went to work soon afterwards. It was not long before the draft came...

[Annotator's Note: Winnecken Gerhard speaks largely in German in this segment with very limited translation to English...

When Harry Bell steamed into New York Harbor one of the first things he saw was the Statue of Liberty. When he saw it...

Glen Jostad saw a major impact on the civilian population as a result of the war. Everyone was together in the war...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was aboard USS LST-502 after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France.] They returned to...

Norman Weber and his family were protected by the Americans [Annotator’s Note: The two Weber children had been born in...

Frederick Freeman was a rifleman [Annotator's Note: in Company E, 2nd Battalion, 101st Infantry Regiment, 26th Infantry...

Frank Fontana took his basic training in Camp Barkeley in Texas. It was miserable, desolate country. The training...

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