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When James B. Jones arrived at Fort Dix, New Jersey, he was assigned to the first black armored unit in the Army. The...

Robert Bassemir fought in a big battle at mountain town called Lucherberg [Annotator's Note: Lucherberg, Germany with...

The Weser River is between the Rhine and Elbe Rivers. While advancing toward Berlin, Guy Leefe, Jr. and the rest of the...

Herbert W. Ridyard was let off a truck near Nennig [Annotator's Note: Nennig, Germany] and then advanced toward their...

Wallace Jeffery was near the Buchenwald concentration camp when the war ended in Germany. The camp had been liberated...

Cecil J. V. Newton went overseas unescorted, but traveled in a zigzag [Annotator's Note: a naval anti-submarine...

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

Arthur Albertson did not see a concentration camp until quite some time later. He saw the ones where they [Annotator's...

After leaving the Battle of the Bulge, John Moran and the 87th Infantry Division chased the Germans out of Belgium. In...

As a child, Christa Schneider said, living in the middle of the war zone was "terrifying." The roar of the airplanes...

After joining the 45th Division, John McConn and his company moved fast by traveling on tanks and tank destroyers. The...

Fred Whitaker remembers some soldiers were decapitated because the Germans would put wires across the roads. They...

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