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Edward G. Willette was in Verviers, Belgium, and wrote home quite often. One of his letters described how, when the...

John W. Towle returned home to Tennessee and married his wife in May 1945. Although he had attended the same high...

Once James O. Evans completed all his training, he was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division and sent to Fort Meade,...

When Eugene Yackel first heard they had dropped the bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan...

Herbert Siebert was born in April 1925 in Saint Louis County, Missouri. He was one of five siblings; his father died...

William Nesser went to the Army Transportation Corps. When he got there, the USS Kermanshah [Annotator's Note: SS...

Andrew George Jameson's first assignment in Holland was a failure. They [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion,...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was aboard USS LST-502 for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944.] USS...

Chester J. Butcher was resting and listening to the radio [Annotator's Note: at the United States Military Academy in...

Chester Strunk views The National WWII Museum as a valuable asset to teach people about the sacrifices made not only by...

Joseph Komito was at Natzweiler [Annotator's Note: Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp near Natzweiler and Struthof...

Vernon Grimes has lost two wives since the war, but never cried over them, despite loving them dearly. He believes his...

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