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The thing Steve Pisanos thinks about the most from the war was when he crash landed in France. When he arrived at the...

Joseph Taliancich remembers the rugged and sandy terrain [Annotator’s Note: of North Africa]. The weather was hot and...

A 109 Focke-Wulf [Annotator's Note: either a German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aircraft or a Focke-Wulf Fw 190...

William Curtis departs for New York and heads for Manhattan Beach Training Station. Learned the alphabet in Morse Code...

Walter Broll was born in 1925 in Baltimore, Maryland. He grew up and was educated in Baltimore. During the Great...

The first time that Arne Samuelson experienced loss in his unit [Annotator’s Note: the 99th Infantry Battalion was a...

Elmore Ruck flew from North Africa to Rome, Italy to join his new squadron, the 16th Troop Carrier Squadron, 64th Troop...

[Annotator’s Note: Birds chirping in the background is audible throughout this segment.] Edwin B. Cottrell was in...

When Robert Swift had gone into the war he was a farm boy. While he was overseas his brother-in-law talked his father...

Charles Childs did not like the Nazis. He admired the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note: German Air Force] pilots, but did...

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

Bastogne was very cold. There, Edward Shames' platoon mostly executed patrolling actions. Shames relates that his...

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