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On the evening of 15 December 1944, the night before the Germans opened up the massive offensive referred to as the...

In 1936, many of Gerhard Franzky's friends joined the Hitler Youth. For them it was like the scouts [Annotator's Note:...

When Stanley Boyd Nance was 19 years old, he was called to do a two-year mission in Tahiti [Annotator’s Note: Tahiti,...

Robert Fitz crossed the Atlantic [Annotator's Note: Atlantic Ocean] 11 times during his service with the Navy Armed...

Jerry LaMura received his basic training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma on artillery. They were being trained as replacements....

When transporting prisoners, Paul Rothenheber was put in charge of taking care of them because he spoke German. The...

Living in West Germany was very different for Elfriede Clausen [Annotator's Note: from living in East Germany under the...

John L. Cowan does not remember much about his time in the military. It was not very exciting. Cowan decided to serve...

Olen Grant was living in a hotel in Austin, Texas when he got a call from Jim Armstrong. It was the first time Grant...

Vernon Leo Tyler's the ride on the ship [Annotator's Note: overseas as part of the 100th Infantry Division] was...

Asked if he had interacted with any of the Russians, Francis Resta remembered working with them to gather the displaced...

Helene Bouton was born in Irshava, Czechoslovakia [Annotator's Note: now Irshava, Ukraine] in December 1925. Her father...

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