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Elmer Knudsen's first combat was at Fort Driant, about a week after he got off the boat in France. It took him about a...

Aubrey Bradley was born in October 1923 in Blue Mound, Kansas. When he was 18 and attending the University of Kansas,...

[Annotator's Note: William Albright had to bail out of his Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber over Germany on 26...

John Witmeyer was first wounded in early July of 1944, just a month after the invasion of Normandy began. He went out...

In Leipzig [Annotator's Note: Leipzig, Germany], Ernest Chauvin and another man were put on a listening post. He was...

Lieutenant John Marr had encounters with other American officers and commanders in the field early on in the Normandy...

Stanley James Thurston was born in Irvington, Alabama in March 1924. The family farmed and raised livestock during the...

Leonard Spivey notes that the Germans managed to get all of the prisoners out before the Russians came. All of the...

Johnnie A. Jones, Senior went ashore at Omaha [Annotator's Note: Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, 7 June 1944 with the...

Stanley Boyd Nance believes there should be institutions like the National WWII Museum [Annotator's Note: The National...

By the early days of May [Annotator’s Note: May 1945], Clyde East and most Americans knew the war was over. The Allied...

Norman William Waldman remembers people celebrating that the war was over [Annotator’s Note: the war in Europe ended 8...

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