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Eugene Vaadi enlisted in the US Army Air Forces at age 20 and was sent to Maxwell Field in Montgomery, Alabama for...

Peter Du Pre was born in May 1923. He has three brothers and one sister. He was the oldest boy. His father was in the...

The first combat jump Norman William Waldman and his regiment [Annotator's Note: 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment,...

Lionel Baxter trained on howitzers. They went through [Annotator's Note: training] in eight weeks because they were...

They [Annotators Note: John Gibbons and the rest of the 100th Bombardment Group] were ordered by Doolittle [Annotators...

Charles White was in the United States training troops. The last outfit he was training was sent over to England. After...

Robert Walter thinks the population of Krinkelt was about 5000 before the war. There was a church on Krinkelt. Water...

Johnnie A. Jones, Senior [Annotator's Note: in the 494th Port Battalion, 6th Engineer Special Brigade] was in the...

Alfons Robert Kleindienst returned to America by himself after World War 2 from Munich [Annotator's Note: Munich,...

Robert Harvey Heinly was born in February 1924 in Reading, Pennsylvania. He remembers using ink wells in school. The...

Frieda Weinreich woke up after the train stopped. They had reached the Auschwitz concentration camp [Annotator's Note:...

Richard Duchossois knew his unit was going to be a tank destroyer unit. None of the men in the battalion had ever even...

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