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Henry Freedman and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] were loaded in "40 and 8" boxcars and were in a...

Robert "Bob" Rickel says that there was very little room in the B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

When the war ended, Leila Morrison [Annotator's Note: serving as an Army nurse in the 118th Evacuation Hospital in...

Seymour Mermelstein had no idea of how the Jews were being treated by the Nazis. He did know through relatives of his...

Frank Curtis McBride was born in Kingston, New York in August 1920. He grew up in Shreveport [Annotator’s Note:...

John Raaen saw an unbelievable number of ships on the morning of D-Day. There were thousands of ships all spaced apart...

Howard Chandler was marched out of Auschwitz [Annotator's Note: Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp...

Peter Hirschmann and his Jewish family were an accepted part of the German population prior to Hitler's [Annotator's...

Louis Cardenas was put into the 36th Infantry Division. They learned how to dig foxholes and fire rifles. They would...

Clarence Gomberg was born in July 1922 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He had an older brother, but he died at a young age...

When Joseph Geary would return from a mission, he and his crew would meet with a staff person and tell them what they...

James McDermott considered the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress the best airplane there was. He did not like the B-24 [...

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