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Walter Broll and his ship the Grace Abbott were in the harbor of Bari, Italy for two weeks before the attack took place...

Hannan gives some background about his life in prewar Italy. He explains the attitude of the German youth and of an...

James Livaudais saw a man named Oseroff killed. That was the first combat death that Livaudais witnessed. He merely...

Itka Zygmuntowicz learned to appreciate life in Auschwitz because she could lose her life at any second. Even among the...

After he completed his training, Paul Rothenheber was assigned to the USS Monticello (APA-61), a troop transport ship....

Harley Reynolds remembers the air filling with bullets. About 20 or 30 yards in, Reynolds made it to an obstacle called...

Willard Haul "Jack" Coop's most memorable experience of World War 2 was VE-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day...

Richard Ford was pinned down by a German machine gun. He was up against a hedgerow so tight that he could not move. The...

There was a Czechoslovakian man who could not pronounce Arles J. Doss's name. During basic training, a man would play...

Jerome Harold Black went to Fort Sill [Annotator's Note: in Lawton, Oklahoma in February 1943] for about a year as an...

When the troops' Christmas packages were arriving in 1944, Gordon Higgins' unit [Annotator's Note: 2nd Battalion, 407th...

When he was told that he would be trained aboard ship as a gunner, Robert Fitz was "mystified." He arrived at the main...

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