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Martin Baranek was born in August 1930 in Wierzbnik, Poland, the older of the two sons of his Jewish family. He...

Lloyd Burns was born in Bossier, Louisiana but grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana during the Great Depression. He had ten...

Raymond Mason remembers that his commanding officer had to make sure people knew that he was the boss. He understood...

They were interrogated in Frankfurt. They were only supposed to tell them name, rank, and serial number. A German...

On the day Joseph Pilcher shot down an Fw-190 [Annotator’s Note: German Focke-Wulf Fw-190 fighter aircraft], he was...

Victor Fienup does not remember his first mission [Annotator's Note: with the 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th...

Oscar Johnson was in Moosburg until General Patton came in and rescued them. It was quite a day. They could see shells...

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

Charles Coolidge went into Anzio during the day then started moving that night for a planned attack the next morning....

John Scott Campbell was born in August 1926 in Seneca County, Ohio. He moved from there to Texas. His father was in the...

Robert Kean remembers they were all in uniform and writing goodbye letters home. He volunteered by staying in college...

Joseph Lesniewski got on a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship]. There were only 19...

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