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In April 1945, President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States]...

Alexander Jefferson survived the horrible conditions of Stalag Luft VII-A [Annotator's Note: Moosburg, Germany]....

Eugene Dorsey was assigned to the Navy Armed Guard and spent fourteen months in the Mediterranean on the SS Houston...

Howard T. Maki was born in May 1925 and grew up in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. His parents were from Finland. Maki...

Perrett's contact with the German prisoner of war (POWs) he transported was very brief. The POWs were usually quite and...

People in combat are people in combat. Hairston does not believe in women in combat. He is the father of 4 daughters...

Mary T. Heany applied for and got the job. [Annotator’s Note: She worked in the wing shop at Boeing] She wore a...

William McCowen was born in 1926 in Elmsford, New York. During the Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great Depression...

Jimmie Kanaya was born in Clackamas, Oregon in 1920 and grew up working on a farm from dawn to dusk. He experienced the...

Freddie Ohr was sitting around in a tent for two and a half days. Sandborne informed him that there would not be a test...

William C. Smith, Junior [Annotator's Note: with the 1st Infantry Division] and his unit were fighting the Germans in...

Life on base was "awful" according to Edwin Sved. The men lived in tents set up in the mud and took cold showers, but...

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