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Fred Hirsekorn was drafted in early 1943. After induction at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas he was sent to Camp Campbell,...

William Dabney took his basic training at Camp Tyson, Tennessee. This was near the Kentucky border and sometimes the...

Henry Lederer says the crosshair gun sight they used was horse and buggy compared to what they have today. They knew...

Dr. Roscoe C. Brown was born in Washington D.C. and lived there for the first 17 years of his life. Washington D.C. was...

A lot of people had been taken prisoner while Leila Morrison was in Europe [Annotator's Note: as a nurse with the 118th...

[Annotator’s Note: A washing machine running in the background is audible throughout this segment.] Gerald “Gerry”...

[Annotator's Note: John K. Ward jumped into France with the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division...

James Flannigan said the war made him older and settled him down. It made him appreciate his parents and his...

Aschaffenburg, Germany was secured quickly. The Germans sent word that they wanted to surrender but would only do so to...

Baum remembers some of the men in his division. He talks about his feelings towards Creighton Abrams. Abrams was the...

Wallace Hurley seldom knew where he was when he was in combat. He entered France and fought there before crossing into...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer and Jones Quincy Adams, Jr. converse about a non-related World War 2 experience.]...

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