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

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

John Shirley [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division] was sent to England to...

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

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

The ongoing hostilities in Europe and Japan were not discussed in Otis Gatewood's circles until Japan attacked Pearl...

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

Thomas Murphy graduated from high school on 6 June 1944 and was inducted into the military two days later. He took his...

In late summer 1944, a German military captain was housed in Elvira Maria Katarina Algermissen Leskovec's family home [...

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

Bernard Brown and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company I, 3rd Battalion, 410th Infantry Regiment, 103rd Infantry...

Lester M. Bornstein and his unit [Annotator's Note: 168th Engineer Combat Battalion] followed the Germans to the Rhine...

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