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Irving Becker wanted to volunteer for the military after arriving in the United States, but his former German...

Stalag Luft was for airmen only. Luft is the German word for air. There were 8000 or 10000 of them there. There were...

Raymond VanDuzer shipped out for England aboard a former luxury liner. There were no available troopships so these...

Carl Light returned home after the first of the new year [Annotator's Note: in 1946]. As an 18 year old, Light did not...

W. P. “Bill” Allen was a Navy medic assigned to the USS LST-523 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank]. The LST had two...

John Raaen and the men around him were ready to get on with the job that they were trained to do. They were tired of...

Heywood Mason crossed the Atlantic to Europe in a big convoy. They were not hassled by submarines and torpedoes as the...

Freddie Ohr went from Corsica Italy to Medina, Italy. They flew out of there on a short steel runway. They flew all of...

No one tried to escape while Robert Whitcomb was a prisoner. After the Russians liberated the camp [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotators Note: The tape skips at the beginning of this segment. The segment begins with Robert Walter talking about...

The 20th Engineers was the first unit to go into Bizerte. George Griffenhagen and his fellow engineers spent the first...

Jack Rolfson would get leave to London [Annotator's Note: London, England] every now and then. On specific missions to...

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