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Oscar Otto Martin remembered that on his first day in combat, they were scheduled to attack at two in the afternoon,...

Edward Shames talks about Herbert Suerth and Suerth's desire to join his platoon. Shames found it funny that Suerth...

Cawthon B. Perdue Jr., known as C.B. to family and friends, was born in El Dorado, Arkansas in 1925. He graduated high...

Billow recalls his friend Robert "Sketch" Marigg telling him about the incident. Sketch saw everything from a bush on...

Zawada said the POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] did not look that bad. He remembers that there were about...

Ennis C. Warren was born in Wilmer, Alabama in September 1923. His mother died when he was born. He was raised by his...

The Allied forces had been unsuccessful in their bombing of the submarine bases at Lorient and Saint-Nazaire, and...

Stanley James Thurston feels it is important for young people to learn the truth about what happened in the Second...

Alois Kopp was a pharmacist's mate aboard the USS Houston (CA-30) prior to its sinking. He was captured by the Japanese...

John Steven Getway [Annotator's Note: a paratrooper with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division...

Martin Baranek was born in August 1930 in Wierzbnik, Poland, the older of the two sons of his Jewish family. He...

Wynn Bauer was born Clay Center, Kansas in September 1923. He grew up on a farm. He went to a two-room school with...

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