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Bernard Knese remembers that on a mission to Holland or Belgium, one of the planes had to crash land. The pilot and co-...

Jerry LaMura remembers hitting the beaches in Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy,...

Stanley Jack Birnbaum fought the war that was considered a "popular war" because it was necessary. He was a tall,...

Schmedemann doesn't exactly remember where the cannon company [Annotator's Note: Cannon Company, 38th Infantry Regiment...

During the invasion of Normandy, Clinton Riddle and most of the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment landed in British Horsa...

Herbert Heilbrun believes in the power of prayer. On his fourth mission, Heilbrun was flying with 36 airplanes in nine...

Bud Loring went from Santa Maria [Annotator's Note: Army Airfield, Santa Barbara County, California] to Colchester,...

Charles Coolidge took sheep into a minefield instead of sending men through it to be sure there were no mines. Early in...

Robert Walker never got over the war. At times he had nightmares, and the ring of the telephone could "jangle his...

Sam V. Abate left Camp Claiborne [Annotator's Note: in Rapides Parish, Louisiana] for Camp Kilmer, New Jersey [...

Itka Zygmuntowicz was in Auschwitz and had to work outside. She got lucky and started working in a place where the...

Basil C. Hoehn and his unit [Annotator’s Note: with the 91st Chemical Mortar Battalion] set up in the woods outside of...

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