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The end of the war was approaching. Baum went to the command platoon, to Abrams, to get permission to rejoin the troops...

Guy Stern was born Guenther Stern in Hildesheim, Germany in January 1922. He lived in Hildesheim until he left for the...

Philip Schmidt was born in June 1922 in Alton, Iowa. It was a small town with not much entertainment and few friends....

Joseph Motil heard artillery passing overhead. All of a sudden he heard incoming fire. The next shell came a little...

Vernon Schmidt's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the day in February 1945 when he lost his three friends....

After arriving in Casablanca in May of 1943, Clinton Riddle and the men of the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment set up a...

Julian Siebert was born in Westmoreland, Kansas in 1923. Growing up during the 1930s, he saw that everyone was hard up...

Eduardo Alberto Peniche Carvajal recalled his first time jumping out of the plane was exciting and apprehensive....

[Annotator's Note: Robert Rupp was assigned to the 3rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion, 9th Armored Division.] They...

Leahr got quite a bit of mail from home. Mail was important to him. He had three brothers in the service. One brother...

Richard Scheerer never spoke much about the war after he got home. He just wanted to forget it. It was a four year...

Clarence Anderson had to fly differently than usual because of the amount of fuel he had aboard. All of the fighters...

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