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In 1946, Walter McNeely was shipped from Europe to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. He and a friend bought some bananas and...

It is tough for Earl Colson to remember things from so long ago. He returned home and was discharged at Fort Dix [...

[Annotator's Note: John K. Ward went overseas with the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division on 16...

Frank Mancuso served in an antitank company in the 30th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division. He had a platoon of...

Eugene Henry Gierka went to Camp Upton [Annotator's Note: in Long Island, New York; now Brookhaven National Laboratory...

Lloyd Geist recalls that during the Battle of Saint-Lo [Annotator's Note: Saint-Lô, France] he was sitting in his...

Joseph Kanter was born in November 1923 in Helena, Alabama. He grew up during the Depression [Annotator's Note: the...

Russell Hoff found the food horrible in the Bad Orb POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camp. The potatoes were...

Eva Nathanson remembers Budapest [Annotator's Note: Budapest, Hungary] being bombed because the houses would shake. Her...

They proceeded on and went to the Rhine River, in the town of Remagen. Troops ahead of them had secured the Remagen...

Robert Boeke was born in August 1925 in Pasadena, California. Pasadena was a great place with nice people. The weather...

Henry Burkle’s wife’s father was trying to raise chickens. One of the things Burkle did during the Depression [...

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