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Towards the end of the war, Germans were surrendering by the thousands to William F. Bielec and his unit [Annotator's...

Z. Anthony Kruszewski was 15 years old in 1943. He was in high school in secret because the Germans outlawed schools....

One morning around 1 May 1945, Paul Bosworth woke up to the smell of coffee which was unusual. He woke up Byron [...

A German officer who could speak English took Joseph O'Donnell into a barn. The officer started asking him questions....

Morris Eugene Day was born in October 1924 in Racine, Missouri, near Joplin [Annotator's Note: Joplin, Missouri]. His...

Herbert Heilbrun packed up his gear and left for home without his crew. Heilbrun decided to take a ship home instead of...

James Flannigan was sent to Camp Carrabelle, Florida [Annotator's Note: after completing basic training at Fort Sill,...

[Annotator's Note: After being liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Helene Boulton was taken to Sweden...

Roy Creek knew they did not get enough troops across the bridge [Annotator's Note: the causeway in La Fiere, France]....

When he wasn't driving McClellan would stand guard. That's how he got the frozen toes; frostbite.They had three gun...

Eugene Vaadi enlisted in the US Army Air Forces at age 20 and was sent to Maxwell Field in Montgomery, Alabama for...

Raymond Mason remembers the guys in his battalion were good guys. They were well-trained. They kept seeing Germans. His...

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