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Elfriede Clausen recalls waiting for the Americans to come to their village and free them from the Russians occupying...

Chester David returned to the United States after working in Germany following the war. He became a rice farmer. He...

Bernard Smith was born in July 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. He did not grow up there. They moved to Syracuse, New York...

[Annotator’s Note: can hear a dog panting in the background throughout the segment.] Johannes Aalders [Annotator’s Note...

George W. McCarthy had lost 57 pounds when he was liberated from a prisoner of war camp. It did not take him very long...

John L. Cowan's civilian career started out with way too much education. He got the right bosses and became known as an...

Robert Stephen Bebko got to the Hurtgen Forest [Annotator's Note: Battle of Hürtgen Forest, 19 September 1944 to 10...

Peter Hirschmann was sent to Fort Dix [Annotator's Note: now Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Trenton, New Jersey]...

[Annotator's Note: Leslie Cruise continuously refers to a book that he has on his lap.] Sometime in September 1944,...

Seymour Mermelstein was born October 1924 in Newark, New Jersey. He was the oldest of three children born to Jewish...

The 109's [Annotator's Note: Messerschmitt Bf-109] undercarriage wasn't very sensible. Early on when they trained...

[Annotator's Note: Joseph O'Donnell was liberated by British troops and taken to Hamburg, Germany in 2 May 1945.] They...

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