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Russell Van Matre was born in March 1922 in Elsberry, Missouri with two brothers and two sisters. His grandparents were...

John Lillibridge’s most memorable experience in World War 2 was VE-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May...

Harry Bell ended up in IX-B [Annotator's Note: Stalag IX-B in Bad Orb, Germany]. In the camp was a man who Bell...

Stanley Jack Birnbaum completed medical school in 1951 and continued in the operating room until his late 80s [...

Bell's initial experience in England consisted mainly of training and trying to avoid boredom. They were gradually...

[Annotators Note: Robert Walter was a platoon sergeant in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th...

Seymour Reitman was near Aachen, Germany, which was the first German city taken by the Americans. From there, he...

Because of the discrimination in the Army caste system, Francis Resta said he came to really hate the Army. But when...

Norman Johnson recalls moving through France and into Germany and how many of the people stood down and surrendered as...

[Annotators Note: Franklin Denius was an artillery forward observer in Battery C, 230th Field Artillery Battalion, 30th...

The Germans had the Americans up a tree for six weeks after the landing [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion...

Warren Bowersox received a field promotion to sergeant for his fighting in Spicheren, France, though, according to him...

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