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Martin Baranek saved his money and bought a grocery store and slowly learned the business. He met and married the...

Richard "Dick" Schneider was born in Akron, Ohio in March 1923. His family included his parents, one sister, and one...

Eben Smith was born in August 1923 in Pasadena, California. He remembers his childhood as being unremarkable; his...

Monty Joe Boitnott thought the strategy was ill advised at Kasserine Pass because they knew the enemy was coming. They...

There were three of them [Annotator's Note: Leona Kleiner is talking about herself and her two sisters attempting to...

On one mission, Bernard Smith's aircraft was taking off and the left wing began to dip. He got frightened and they hit...

Robert "Bob" Rickel says that there was very little room in the B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

Jackson applied at Pomona College using the GI Bill. He was accepted and eventually graduated from there. He was still...

Albert Pultz Lochra, Jr. is sure the P-51s [Annotator's Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft] kept planes...

Manfred Bahman and his family fled Dresden [Annotator’s Note: Dresden, Germany] after the Allies had destroyed the city...

Richard "Dick" Loges [Annotator's Note: with Company H, 2nd Battalion, 180th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division...

Wallace Hurley missed his bed most of all while he was in combat. The rain was heavy in France. Foxholes filled up so...

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