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Herbert Heilbrun packed up his gear and left for home without his crew. Heilbrun decided to take a ship home instead of...

Wilbur Thomas recalled the difficulties of managing the French Army while he supervised the pipelines. He also...

Everyone in the outfit had great respect for Gavin [Annotators Note: Major General James "Jumpin' Jim" Gavin,...

Joel Urice was a leading NCO [Annotator's Note: noncommissioned officer] on the troop carrier. It took 13 days to get...

Byron Othello Wilkins and other POWs worked in a nearby town called Euskirchen. They unloaded boxcars and one man found...

Itka Zygmuntowicz was 15 years old when she and her family were taken by train from the Nowe Miasto Ghetto. They rode...

[Annotator's Note: Maud Dahme and her sister were hiding from the Nazis with a Christian family in Elburg, Netherlands...

Leonard Spivey was hanging in his parachute and it was cold. Spivey was not uncomfortable because he thinks he had a...

For the remainder of the war, Gordon Higgins drove a jeep between the battalion aid station [Annotator's Note: 2nd...

Fred Whitaker was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in July 1925. He had one sister. He enlisted on 17 June 1943. He...

Lyle Bouck was the youngest graduate in his class. He was 18 or 19 years old and the average age of the OCS [Annotator'...

They [Annotator's Note: Vernon Tweedt's family] had a Philco radio. When he heard the news [Annotator's Note: of the...

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