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The war did not change John Bache-Wiig, Jr. He expected what happened and he applied his Eagle Scout Annotator's Note:...

Irwin Stovroff experienced interrogation by the Germans after his capture. The enemy thought the American airman knew...

Ruth Switzer recalled her father moving the family to a Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York to take over a...

After spending time in Holland, Robert W. "Doby" Gibson crossed the border into Germany. There was always the danger of...

Joseph Alexander arrived in Auschwitz [Annotator's Note: Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp complex in...

Christa Schneider was born in April 1940 in Breslau, Silesia, the younger of the two daughters in her family. Her...

In late October 1944, Jones Quincy Adams, Jr. was sent to Naples, Italy by ship. The voyage took almost two weeks....

Byron Othello Wilkins experienced the artillery barrage around 5:30 in the morning [Annotators Note: on the morning of...

Winnecken Gerhard was captured by the Americans. He still had a rifle grenade in his pocket after being searched. He...

Kaare Allan Johnson and his unit [Annotator's Note: 596th Parachute Combat Engineer Company, 517th Parachute Infantry...

Neither Nicholas J. Zuras nor his crew were told about the Normandy invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied...

Norman William Waldman [Annotator's Note: after being captured by the Germans after jumping on D-Day, the Allied...

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