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After a couple days, Ralph Sykes crossed the river [Annotator's Note: Roer River] on a pontoon boat. His first combat...

Frank J. Waldeck and his unit [Annotator's Note Company C, 1st Battalion, 411th Infantry Regiment, 103rd Infantry...

Clarence Herbert Weatherwax served in the 298th Infantry Regiment which was a National Guard unit in federal service....

Ed Tunnicliff describes his first combat experience. At the front was a German pilot they called Bed Check Charlie. The...

Donald C. Morrison and his company [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry...

Joseph Kagan was an infantry soldier. He won the Silver Star [Annotator's Note: the Silver Star Medal is the third-...

Samuel Lombardo received the Silver Star for advancing on a hill under enemy fire. His men hit the ground when the...

John Bache-Wiig, Jr.'s first combat objective was at Philippsbourg, France. On 4 and 5 January [Annotator's Note:...

Gale Ammerman needed his weapons in the Varsity landing [Annotator's Note: Operation Varsity, 24 March 1945, Wesel,...

When asked his opinion of the Germans, Otis Gatewood said it seemed to him that the kids of the war generation were...

From Camp Howze [Annotator's Note: Camp Howze in Gainesville, Texas; now Gainesville municipal airport], Bernard Brown...

Edward G. Willette was in Verviers, Belgium, and wrote home quite often. One of his letters described how, when the...

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