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One night, the battalion command sent John Witmeyer on a patrol behind German lines. Witmeyer took six other men out on...

Richard Field was overseas for about 21 months. His son was born nine months after he returned. They sailed out in a...

For Francis Hurd, the most difficult part of the war was crossing the beachhead onto French soil because they didn't...

World War 2 changed William White Brainard’s life because he was able to take advantage of the G.I. Bill [Annotator's...

Leon Bass left from Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston, Massachusetts] and crossed the Atlantic [Annotator's Note:...

It was difficult for Otis Gatewood to adjust to civilian life after his return to the United States. He had to relearn...

When John Luckadoo was on his bomb run [Annotators Note: during the 8 October 1943 mission to Bremen] it was terribly...

They [Annotator's Note: Raymond Zager and his fellow soldiers of the 66th Infantry Regiment, 71st Infantry Division]...

John Scott Campbell lost three ships. The one [Annotator's Note: SS Andrew G. Curtin, sunk 1944] in the Barents Sea [...

The air raid sirens that would warn the ships of incoming kamikazes kept the men up day and night. Psychologically it...

[Annotator’s Note: There is a buzzing in the background throughout this clip.] Justus Rosenberg [Annotator’s Note: a...

Vernon Brantley had communicated with his wife via V-mail [Annotator's Note: Victory Mail; postal system put into place...

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