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Joseph Armanini begins by discussing his early childhood growing up on a dairy farm in Santa Cruz County, California....

[Annotator’s Note: There is a clock ticking in the background throughout this segment.] Robert J. Hutchings was born in...

Norman Riggsby started heading for the hedgerows [Annotator’s Note: after reaching the high ground on Omaha Beach, he...

A month before Virgil Faust was liberated, the prisoners in the camp began hearing the artillery getting closer. Rumors...

After John Edmund Murman joined the Navy, he attended boot camp and advanced training for fire control in Newport,...

There was a chaplain in the camp [Annotator's Note: Stalag XVII-B] who went around in an effort to keep up the morale...

On 6 May 1945, Robert Boeke was told to stay in Mörsdorf [Annotator's Note: Mörsdorf, Germany]. They [Annotator's Note...

Larris Duhon was assigned to the 300th Engineer Combat Battalion and was sent overseas to Europe from Camp Shanks [...

[Annotator's Note: Maud Dahme and her sister were hiding from the Nazis on a farm in Oldebroek, Netherlands.] They...

Martin Richard was born in Grand Chenier, Louisiana, south of Lake Charles in June 1924. His father was a cattleman and...

Lucien Laborde had asked his older brother to try to find him a piece of land that he could buy and begin farming. His...

Malcolm Higgins never saw the morale down within the ranks of the 8th Air Force. To him, morale was fine. Base activity...

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