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[Annotator’s Note: Dishes clattering and other noises are audible in the background throughout the segment.] Joseph...

After exiting the beach at Normandy, John Raaen and his men followed the hedgerows in case they would be fired upon....

Marvin H. Gohlke was born in Texas in November 1921. He was the oldest child. His mother had four more sons. She died...

For Ryan O'Brien, going into combat was like going to play a football game. The flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft...

After World War 2 and the Korean War [Annotator's Note: 1950 to 1953], William McCowen served in the Vietnam War. He...

Edwin Slomka was shipped overseas on the Aquitania [Annotator's Note: RMS Aquitania], which was turned into a troopship...

For John Witmeyer, every day in combat brought a new story, and Witmeyer served over 200 days on the front lines as a...

Enrique Cervantes recounts how at SAC [Annotator's Note: Strategic Air Command] headquarters he was asked to accompany...

Bill Schwartz was assigned to the 115th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division as a platoon commander and sent to a...

Alfred Dietrick and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry...

Joseph Alexander arrived in Dachau [Annotator's Note: Dachau concentration camp complex near Dachau, Germany] and about...

Walter Broll and his ship the Grace Abbott were in the harbor of Bari, Italy for two weeks before the attack took place...

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