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Wayne Pierce grew up in the small farming community of Polo, Illinois. He was drafted in June 1941 six months before...

Billow was born in Millersburg, Pennsylvania. Growing up during the depression was rough, they did not have much. His...

Herbert W. Ridyard turned down a leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] to...

In February 1943, Bill Connelly was inducted into the Army at Indiantown Gap [Annotator's Note: Fort Indiantown Gap in...

Basil C. Hoehn was born October 1924 in St. Joseph, Missouri. He came from a low economic background. His father worked...

Back in the United States the main role he had was to see that everybody's personnel records were in order before they...

Harold Roed was shipped overseas to England on the Mauretania [Annotator's Note: RMS Mauretania], an ocean liner...

Walter Trauner remembers the people were nice. They were taken over by the Nazis. He had cousins who were in the German...

Kaare Allan Johnson's unit [Annotator's Note: 596th Parachute Combat Engineer Company, 517th Parachute Infantry...

After being wounded and recovered by his men, Richard Duchossois was put on the first train out of Verdun and taken to...

[Annotator's Note: This clip begins with George Griffenhagen and the interviewer returning from a break and talking...

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