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Gerald Rupert enlisted in the Navy and went to Sampson, New York [Annotator's Note: Sampson Naval Training Base] on one...

During the war, rationing was a way of life in England, according to Constance Cresswell. Each person was allotted two...

Robert Eshback was born in 1924 in Beckersville, Pennsylvania. He was one of two sons of a foundryman. Eshback went to...

Don Tallon [Annotator's Note: a liberated former prisoner of war in Magdeburg, Germany] and his fellow freed prisoners...

Lloyd Burns had to bail out of his plane. When he jumped out, he blacked out right after he pulled his ripcord. His...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Johannes Aalders about the Battle of Arnhem, part of Operation Market Garden,...

Charles Scheffel met up with the 9th Infantry Division near the airport in Algiers. It was the 9th Division's job to...

Z. Anthony Kruszewski discusses the history of the Polish language. His mother was evacuated to Ukraine during the...

The men learned to pack parachutes and jump from a tower. They had to pack the first 10 parachutes they would use at...

John Witmeyer boarded ship on 5 June 1944 for transport across the English Channel. Before Witmeyer crossed the channel...

Joseph Lesniewski got on a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship]. There were only 19...

Abe Milkis landed on Omaha Beach during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day. Rather than entering France as a...

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