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Philip Schmidt was born in June 1922 in Alton, Iowa. It was a small town with not much entertainment and few friends....

Only five men survived from the fight on the hilltop. It was the first time Charles Scheffel was wounded. A German had...

[Annotator's Note: After his bomber crashed, Richard Klenoski was in a rest home in England when the Germans...

Monroe S. Wolyn was born in Brooklyn, New York [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in New York, New...

Eveline Peardon and her siblings visited the young soldiers every day after D-Day [Annotator’s Note: the 6 June 1944...

Monty Joe Boitnott did not know his operational situation other than he was to cut the lines to stop the Nazi troop...

Richard O. "Otto" Bertz had never been as cold as he was in combat. He still has trouble with his feet and goes to bed...

Edward Dunne and the men [Annotator's Note: the crew of the USS LST-53] were told what was going to happen [Annotator's...

Paul Arst belonged to a rotary club in Baton Rouge [Annotator's Note: Baton Rouge, Louisiana]. One year, the club did a...

Isadore Bronstein received his draft notification in late 1942 or early 1943. He had thought he would not be called up...

Robert S. Rugeley [Annotator's Note: with the 285th Signal Pigeon Company] oversaw prisoners at Dachau [Annotator's...

Robert Martin wanted to join the Navy because his friend had gone in before he did. He was a year or two older than him...

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