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Onesi remembers the first prisoner of war (POW) camp he was in. It was an older camp that the Germans added barracks to...

Robert Martin got his tattoo when he was on a ship with three other guys. They were in Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston...

Richard Ford heard about the training incident at Slapton Sands [Annotators Note: Ford is referring to Exercise Tiger,...

After World War 2 and the Korean War [Annotator's Note: 1950 to 1953], William McCowen served in the Vietnam War. He...

When Hugh Colbert was discharged from the US Army in November 1945 his father insisted that he take advantage of the GI...

Ruth Switzer met her husband through her mother and mother-in-law. They never spoke about their World War 2 experience...

While in Innsbruck [Annotator's Note: Innsbruck, Austria], Wayne Peer and the men in his platoon [Annotator's Note: I...

Woods did well in school. He could have gone on to any of the advanced training schools but he volunteered to go out as...

Leonard Gaj was born in Buffalo [Annotator’s Note: Buffalo, New York] in March 1925. His name, Gaj, is Polish. He had...

Bill Schwartz was assigned to the 115th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division as a platoon commander and sent to a...

Kenneth Beckman was born in August 1922 in Somerville, Massachusetts. He was raised in Northampton, Massachusetts where...

Cleston Stell was on the Enns River in Austria when Hitler killed himself and the war ended. He did not believe the...

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