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

About 2 December [Annotator's Note: 2 December 1944] James Alspaugh and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 102nd Infantry...

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...

Eugene Yackel and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 2nd Battalion, 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry...

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

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

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

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...

Vernon Schmidt [Annotator's Note: a replacement on his way to be assigned to a regiment] passed through the ruins of...

[Annotator's Note: Rattling dishes can be heard in the background.] Byron Herbert Meader was sent to Camp Shelby [...

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