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Richard Richards wrote letters to his wife after the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes...

When Harry Bell and the other prisoners arrived [Annotator's Note: at Stalag IX-B in Bad Orb, Germany] they were...

Stanley Jack Birnbaum fought the war that was considered a "popular war" because it was necessary. He was a tall,...

Russell Hoff has vivid memories of his prisoner of war experiences. He has flashbacks that will probably never leave...

Fred Whitaker remembers some soldiers were decapitated because the Germans would put wires across the roads. They...

George Reitmeier was born in June 1925 in Lackawanna, New York. He grew up in a German and Polish neighborhood with a...

Philip Schmidt used the G.I. Bill to get an education. He went to Saint Paul, Minnesota and found tons of G.I.s looking...

Julian Siebert was drafted in May 1942. The next year was very long. He had his basic training in Camp Hood in Texas....

World War 2 changed Richard Willett's life by making it possible for him to go to college. He learned how to discipline...

Henry Langrehr grew up during the Great Depression in Clinton [Annotator's Note: Clinton, Iowa]. It was a hard time....

Leonard Jindra never saw any troops he served with intentionally commit crimes. It was the rear echelon troops who...

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