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Henry Heim was 17 years old when he went to work in the mine with his father. He shoveled coal into a buggy. His father...

Lorcey J. Sonnier was born in May 1924. During the Great Depression, he did not have shoes. The town did not have roads...

John M. Roberts and his unit [Annotator's Note: Battery C, 592nd Field Artillery Battalion, 106th Infantry Division]...

The concentration camp at Mauthausen, Austria was infested with lice, and Martin Baranek said conditions were worse...

Joseph Dean Reilly and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters, 3rd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment,...

James W. Phillips recalled that the warfare felt less heavy after the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

Robert Wolf returned to the United States from the Philippines and went back to school. He graduated in 1949. He...

John Raaen and the men around him were ready to get on with the job that they were trained to do. They were tired of...

Henrietta Harkness [Annotator's Note: an Army nurse with the 24th Evacuation Hospital] was trained in Virginia for a...

Lutz Windisch and his tank crew knocked out two or three Russian tanks. His tank was armed with an 88 [Annotator's Note...

Josephine Pescatore remembers pot belly stoves at the end of the tent which kept the whole tent warm. One evening a...

After the war ended, Baum returned to New York to get some of his wounds taken care of. He was so happy, because of his...

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