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Russell Hoff found the food horrible in the Bad Orb POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camp. The potatoes were...

Darold Rice was born in Flint, Michigan, in 1925. During the Great Depression, Darold’s father worked in the Chevrolet...

Frederick Freeman [Annotator's Note: serving in Company E, 2nd Battalion, 101st Infantry Regiment, 26th Infantry...

William Curtis was born in 1921 in a shack five miles outside of Hazlehurst, Mississippi in the Martinville Community....

Eugene T. Leavy was discharged in October 1947. With the Status of Forces Agreement of June 1947, Leavy was able to...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Larson to talk about what an average day was like for him.] His average...

After being wounded [Annotator's Note: on 4 October 1944], Sol Lazinger was given morphine and brought behind the lines...

Prior to Operation Market Garden [Annotator's Note: Operation Market Garden, 17 to 25 September 1944, Netherlands],...

Leon Bass was training in Mississippi. Black soldiers were to be given ideas about why we were fighting the war. The...

George Roberts was working a good job when he was drafted. He was called up in August and reported to Altoona,...

Gene R. Jerabek [Annotator's Note: a lieutenant in the US Army Nurse Corps] went overseas to Italy [Annotator's Note:...

On the morning of the 16th [Annotator's Note: 16 December 1944] Lyle Bouck was surprised by shelling. They could hear...

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