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[Annotator's Note: Francis Hurd served as a truck driver in Company B, 291st Engineer Combat Battalion. He saw action...

Clyde East's combat philosophy worked for him as a pilot. When he caught sight of an enemy aircraft, it scared him, but...

[Annotator's Note: After capturing Mainz, Germany,] Vernon Schmidt and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 358th...

Richard Ford was at the assault training center near Bristol for a few months. There was a boys' school near them....

William Kracov did not particularly like basic training, but he felt prepared afterward. He sailed right to Europe on...

Victor Fienup went to Paris [Annotator's Note: Paris, France] on V-E Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8...

Robert Kean talks about a letter he wrote home. After the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or German...

Elmo E. Bell retired from the US Army as a full colonel. His Mississippi National Guard retired grade is brigadier...

The worst aspects about Hugh Colbert's prisoner of war experience included his uncertainty regarding the future, the...

[Annotator's Note: Gerhard Franzky served in the Waffen SS as a communications officer in Headquarters, 22nd Regiment,...

Robert Rans was placed in a room with three other wounded prisoners of war at the Timisul de Jos prison camp in Timisu...

Russell Van Matre [Annotator's Note: who had served in the 2nd Infantry Division in Europe, discharged in October 1945...

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