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Stegmeier enlisted because everybody was doing it. There was a draft going on and if you didn't enlist you would be...

Charles Childs was told he would be leading the Group [Annotator's Note: 2nd Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force] soon....

Milosevich did not know of the plan to pull back.The Germans flanked the position and captured hole after hole. They...

During the war, rationing was a way of life in England, according to Constance Cresswell. Each person was allotted two...

Receiving mail was very important to John Kerner. He came under attack while in Normandy and a guy crawled up to him...

[Annotator's Note: Joseph Lesniewski served in the Army as a paratrooper in Company E, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute...

Jimmy Doi was born in Oxnard, California in 1925. Growing up in California was great until the war started. Doi was 16...

Arnold Debrick got separated from his unit in Bastogne, Belgium and hitched a ride on a passing truck. When he got off...

Gerald Vernon Leopold, known as Gerald V. Leopold in the Army, was born in Frankfurt, Germany in August 1923. When he...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear airplanes flying overhead throughout segment.] From January until July 1945, John R....

Leon Bass's mother always told him he did not need to use violence to solve a problem. His friends were tough guys....

Lewis E. Belcher [Annotator's Note: wounded in action in Germany as a tank commander in Company B, 11th Tank Battalion...

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