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J.M. "Jimmy" Fried, Jr. was born in December 1919 and grew up in Vicksburg, Mississippi. He had one older brother and...

At Lohr, they lost their 1st tank from a German Panzerfaust. Baum says they did not have time to think about it, they...

Walter Sapp never personally saw a German tank in combat. He could hear them. At the Remagen Bridge [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator's Note: There is a video break then the clip starts when interviewee is in mid-sentence.] William McCowen...

George Roberts was working a good job when he was drafted. He was called up in August and reported to Altoona,...

While in combat in the Normandy's hedgerow country, an entire patrol from John Witmeyer's unit was killed by a German...

Lloyd Reese trained to be a bombardier on the AT-11 [Annotator’s Note: Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan] and then the B-24 [...

[Annotator's Notes: Susumas Ito served in the Army as an instrument sergeant in the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion,...

Irving Becker had left Anzio [Annotator's Note: Anzio, Italy] and was headed for Rome [Annotator's Note: Rome, Italy]...

Lorenzo Dow Crews was born in April 1924 in Memphis [Annotator's Note: Memphis, Tennessee]. His father worked as a...

Walter Douglas was on a bombardment mission near Berlin, Germany. After he dropped his bombs, he lost one of his...

In 1943, John J. Connelly graduated high school and went to sign up for the Air Corps with a friend of his. He flunked...

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