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Hawk describes his war wounds from shrapnel and having the pieces picked out of his skin. He describes the results of...

Ralph Sykes does not remember how he heard about Goering [Annotator's Note: German Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering]...

Robert Boeke [Annotator's Note: with the 341st Infantry Regiment, 86th Infantry Division] was promoted to Corporal...

When James B. Jones arrived at Fort Dix, New Jersey, he was assigned to the first black armored unit in the Army. The...

Cleston Stell was on the Enns River in Austria when Hitler killed himself and the war ended. He did not believe the...

Dr. John Julien Zingheim does not think the war changed him. He was not bitter about being forced to go to war. The...

Seymour Mermelstein has gone back to Italy twice, and he cannot believe how large the mountains are viewing them now....

When they left the village [Annotator's Note: during fighting in the Alsace-Lorraine region of France], Zawada rode in...

Arthur Seltzer matured very quickly as a result of the war. He was 18 when he was drafted and 19 on Omaha Beach. He...

In describing what it was like to go into combat for the first time, Robert Boyer said he saw a comrade "go to pieces"...

Normandy was bocage country [Annotator's Note: a terrain of mixed woodland and pastures] and was divided by stone...

Mario DeCarlo recalls electrocuting himself when he attempted to install a light bulb in his pup tent one night. He...

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