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

Joseph Alexander arrived in Dachau [Annotator's Note: Dachau concentration camp complex near Dachau, Germany] and about...

Robert Haffner was born in November 1924 on the eastern side of Detroit, Michigan. Haffner remembers growing up in a...

The draft board sent William Nesser a notice to report. He disregarded it, because he had his time in [Annotator's Note...

Joseph Komito saw his parents for the last time on a train. The Nazis gave everyone in Komito's camp a postcard to send...

Norman Ikari went from the aid station to the 56th Evacuation Hospital. This was a forward tent hospital where they...

Seymour Reitman spent some time preparing his equipment for his overseas departure. The weapons had to be put in a...

George Sakato had to go and rescue the Lost Battalion [Annotator's Note: elements of the 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry...

When they left St. Lo, they were in dairy and farming country. The farms were laid out in squares and there were mounds...

The trip home after Howard Genrich was discharged is a little blurry to him but he recalls hitchhiking and riding buses...

Robert "Bob" Lowry and his ship [Annotator's Note: USS LST-538] finally got beached and dropped out of the convoy [...

Erik Johnsen served in the US Merchant Marine during World War 2. Thinking about the war, he says that during it he...

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