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Charles Coolidge took sheep into a minefield instead of sending men through it to be sure there were no mines. Early in...

Monty Joe Boitnott was at a bomber base in Algeria. There were no air bases in Tunisia because almost all of the bases...

The duration of a typical watch for Robert Fitz was two hours, except in the places like the Arctic, where it was so...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Helene Bouton to talk about life in a concentration camp.] There was only one...

Donald Lewis feels lucky [Annotator's Note: for surviving the sinking of the SS Athenia on 3 September 1939 when he was...

Peter Hirschmann was born in December 1924 in Nuremberg, Germany. He was raised there as the son of a patriotic World...

The Germans were very proud people. They always managed to put on hats and some kind of gloves. Somehow or other, John...

Floyd Dumas was injured at Salerno when a fragment from a hand grenade hit him. He was patched up and stayed on the...

On a bombing mission over Berlin, Germany on 3 February 1945, Jesse Wofford's aircraft was badly damaged by German flak...

William F. Bielec was born in March 1917 [Annotator's Note: in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]. He was born into a Polish-...

From there [Annotator's Note: the United States Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay, Maryland where William Curtis took his...

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