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Maxwell Nelson was born in October 1921 in Covington County, Alabama and grew up in the town of Andalusia. The youngest...

Gus Blass, II wrote a book in 1999. One day his granddaughter asked him what a Dear John letter was, and why they...

Robert Nichols Cresswell was an original member of the 291st [Annotator’s Note: 291st Engineer Combat Battalion] when...

When it was time to go back to the United States, Francis Resta was sent to a tent city at LeHavre, France to wait for...

After high school, Melvin Linkous entered the field of radio. He interviewed Bob Hope's [Annotator's Note: Leslie...

John Weinart could only stay scared for so long. He did his best to maintain his excitement and adrenaline. There was a...

Joel Urice moved to Taft, Texas during his junior year of high school in 1940. It was a different culture of people. He...

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

Vera Goodkin [Annotator's Note: née Herman] was born in a small town of Uzhgorod, Czechoslovakia [Annotator's Note: now...

Loevsky washed out as a pilot and went to Navigation school. He graduated from navigation school in Hondo, Texas in...

Steve Pisanos made his way into some nearby woods. The German troops followed him in calling for him to give himself up...

[Annotator's Note: There is a sound of a clock ticking in the background]. Chester Sharp and his crew dropped food...

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