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Tom Quigley recalls how after having sufficiently halted the German advance, he and his men slogged their way back to...

Fred Arthur Balfour was born in August 1923, in Glens Falls, New York. He lived there until he was 12 years old. When...

Lou Brissie's Uncle Robert was around the same age as he was and was more like a brother to him. Robert was already in...

Alois Kopp volunteered to go on the USS Houston (CA-30) in 1939 for deployment overseas. The ship was stationed in...

Herman Molen remembers when they found out they were free. [Annotator’s Note: Molen and others were liberated from a...

Vernon Alexander was a history major in college. He ran into a situation about 30 miles outside of Innsbruck, Austria...

Robert Bassemir thinks the war was a big life experience for him. He fought for his country and learned how easily he...

Joseph Alter lost men in his platoon. He lost two men in the Hurtgen Forest [Annotator's Note: Battle of Hürtgen Forest...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with Jones Quincy Adams Jr. and the interviewer in conversation.] Adams was...

Richard O. "Otto" Bertz was in Czechoslovakia when the war ended. That was not bad duty. They were stuck in a woodland...

William Colgan served overseas with the 79th Fighter Squadron, 86th Fighter Group, 12th Air Force and flew in P-40s [...

Edward Field entered the military to escape his background and the oppression of anti-Semitism. It was wonderful and...

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