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Walter Sapp was fortunate to have excellent hearing. He could hear mortars coming down. The way a mortar explodes, if...

Gerhard Franzky was a member of the 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg. Franzky was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1925....

[Annotator's Note: An interviewer asks Thomas J. Blakey to tell him what it was like a few days before D-Day; the...

Josephine Pescatore remembers pot belly stoves at the end of the tent which kept the whole tent warm. One evening a...

On 2 October [Annotator's Note: 2 October 1944], Angelo Joseph Spinato and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 4th...

Before he could finish his schooling, Philip Schmidt was drafted into the Army. He knew several people that had been...

When Theodore Finkbeiner landed on Anzio Beach he and the other landing troops were bombed and strafed. Company G [...

Bernard Friedenberg trained for the invasion of Europe after the invasion of Sicily. He landed at Omaha Beach and Gela...

Richard Richards was born in July 1916. He grew up on a farm. He graduated high school in 1935. He enlisted in the Army...

Lionel Baxter did not have much to celebrate with when the war was over. Baxter was discharged in November 1945 in...

Harold Stanford Cole did not experience segregation while he was growing up. When he got into the service, he did not...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewee shows the camera several pictures while he talks about events of World War 2.] In...

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