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Enrique Cervantes was born in Fresno, California in October 1923. He grew up in severe poverty and experienced bigotry...

James Sandoz was in Germany when the war ended. He does not recall how he heard, perhaps by an officer. They were moved...

In 1949, Herbert W. Ridyard took a job with NACA, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which was the forerunner...

The last thing Kenneth J. Hanson [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 410th Infantry Regiment, 103rd Infantry Division]...

Robert Jones' plane was named "Rebel Butch". He was dating a gal in Alabama who was nicknamed Butch. Rebel was attached...

Ralph Francis Hogan landed in a farm field after bailing out of his plane. Initially when he landed, he thought he...

Lynn Compton was not told about the upcoming invasion while he was in Holborn. Compton could tell by the outlay of land...

Elmer Knudsen's first combat was at Fort Driant, about a week after he got off the boat in France. It took him about a...

Guy Stern rarely interrogated civilians during the war. His partner, Kurt Jasen did interrogate some German businessmen...

James Cockrell [Annotator's Note: with the 10th Engineer Combat Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division] landed in Anzio [...

Warren Peiffer had German cooks in the kitchen. He would give them orders. [Annotator’s Note: the Germans were...

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