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Sam Goldstein was born the second youngest of nine children in January 1920 in Obbach, Germany. His father served in...

Jack A. Smithson was not in Europe for too long after the war was over. When he had enough points [Annotator's Note: a...

Sidney LaPook joined the 4th Auxiliary Surgical Group about a week before the war ended. He was hoping to be able to...

After he was discharged, Francis Resta attended college to study engineering, but when that didn't make sense to him,...

The Hartz Mountains [Annotators Note: also referred to as the Harz Mountains, Germany] contained many Hitler Youth...

It was surprising to Baynham when his parachute opened. He could see a power line that he was being blown toward. He...

Edward Field was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York in 1924. He was one of six children born to Eastern...

Colin Joseph Mayne went overseas on a troop carrier ship, the Malvern [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling; unable to...

Antoinette Underwood signed up for the Army a day or two after Pearl Harbor. She had to go to West Point for an...

Stalag Luft was for airmen only. Luft is the German word for air. There were 8000 or 10000 of them there. There were...

For days, James Flannigan recalls, the word was that they had to get to Saint-Lo [Annotator's Note: Saint-Lo, France]....

Lucien Laborde and the rest of the 115th Infantry Regiment [Annotator's Note: 115th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry...

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