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As a veteran, John Witmeyer believes in the importance and the value of history, especially the history of World War 2...

Morton Brooks was hospitalized and debriefed in England, and was in the U.K. when victory in Europe was declared. He...

Charles Fitts, Jr. does not know what he would have been if not for the war. Before the war, Fitts wanted to be a left...

Frank Forcinella was born in February 1925 in Rensselaer, New York. His childhood was good. They had hard times and...

John Edward Pierce [Annotator's Note: with Company A, 149th Engineer Combat Battalion] was given orders to settle 50...

Samuel Lombardo appreciated his boyhood in Pennsylvania. He grew up admiring the forefathers of the United States. They...

Vernon Tweedt was crossing southern Germany. The mountain streams were almost clogged with rainbow trout because Hitler...

Roswell Weil was on Omaha Beach [Annotator's Note: Omaha Beach, Normandy, France] bringing in supplies. His depot [...

In Leipzig [Annotator's Note: Leipzig, Germany], Ernest Chauvin and another man were put on a listening post. He was...

Robert Murphy's platoon leader, Lieutenant Dolan [Annotators Note: First Lieutenant John J. Dolan, also know as Red Dog...

They were not really Russian soldiers, but they were of Ukranian descent. Standifer called them Russians. If the...

William Kracov did not particularly like basic training, but he felt prepared afterward. He sailed right to Europe on...

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