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Leon Waldman wanted to make his service a career. Navigators do not become generals. He would have been a light colonel...

Vernon Brantley had communicated with his wife via V-mail [Annotator's Note: Victory Mail; postal system put into place...

Lloyd Burns was forced to walk with other prisoners for seven days. They slept in barns at night and traveled during...

Carl Light did not take advantage of the G.I. Bill. He had a good time and enjoyed life. He did think about staying in...

On 23 April [Annotators Note: 23 April 1945] Mancel Kirk and his fellow 168th Infantry Regiment GIs were taken by truck...

Fred Hirsekorn started out as a gunner on an M4 Sherman medium tank. He had made PFC by the end of basic training. He...

Howard Chandler went to visit his relatives about 40 kilometers away after the 1939 school year ended. [Annotator's...

Irving Becker remembers a funny incident as his most memorable event of the war. It involved some comrades and women at...

Antoinette Underwood and the hospital staff [Annotator's Note: of the 129th General Hospital] knew an invasion was...

William V. Cross [Annotator’s Note: with the 261st Infantry Regiment, 65th Infantry Division] crossed into Germany...

Donelson Houseman experienced a terrible event after he was liberated. He went into town and could see the tanks [...

Ralph Sykes was born in March 1924 in Greenville, Pennsylvania. As a boy, his family moved to a farm outside of...

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