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Owen Gibb remembers they always diverted to an American airfield to get hot dogs and ice cream. Gibb met his wife in a...

Walter Bala completed 35 missions before he returned home. He had one mission where he thought for sure he was going to...

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

Francis J. Cook remembers the Germans treating GIs harshly in the camps. Food was sparse. He lost about 60 pounds in...

Peter Harry spent six months in England then crossed the Channel to Omaha Beach in Normandy. He landed about two days...

Charles Scheffel was born in Eden, Oklahoma in 1919. His father was an illegal immigrant from Sweden and passed away...

William Burrus used the G.I. Bill to attend the University of Alabama [Annotator's Note: in Tuscaloosa, Alabama]. The G...

Eben Smith was born in August 1923 in Pasadena, California. He remembers his childhood as being unremarkable; his...

Wallace Hurley recounts the story of his admired company commander who was killed while capturing two Germans. The...

Bud Olson [Annotator's Note: with Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 401st Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne...

In 1942, Bernard Ellenberg [Annotator's Note: born in Poland in 1921, immigrated to New York, New York as a child] was...

Gerard Dillon went to Camp Croft, South Carolina for infantry basic training from November until January [Annotator's...

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