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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...

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

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

Robert Nichols Cresswell left Remagen [Annotator’s Note: as a truck driver in the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion, he...

Jack Davis and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company D, 1st Battalion, 10th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division]...

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

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

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

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

Rodney Charles Fraser went through Aachen [Annotator’s Note: Aachen, Germany] and saw the obvious destruction [...

Many Jewish people in the Army spoke other languages, and sometimes the words would get mixed up. Yiddish [Annotator's...

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

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