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Vernon Leopold feared being captured because he was German. He did not know of the death camps but he knew that the men...

Richard Ford had a carbine which was made by Remington. The barrel still had factory markings on it. Every now and then...

[Annotator's Note: Through the 50 minutes that make up this clip, Melvin Linkous reviews period photographs of the men...

When World War 2 ended, Vernon Schmidt and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 358th Infantry Regiment, 90th...

Chester Strunk and his crewmates who were originally assigned together had flown with separate crews until they were...

Paul Hissey was born in 1922 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. His father was a Navy man who served in World War 1. His family...

As they traveled through Germany [Annotator's Note: during his time spent as a prisoner of war (POW), Onesi remembers...

Carrol Joy and two of his buddies took most of their equipment with them and loaded up their carbines to head to...

J.M. "Jimmy" Fried, Jr.'s most memorable experience was the first battle he participated in. He was given orders to...

Otto Kirkpatrick was born in October 1921 in Marianna, Arkansas. In the summer of 1943, he graduated from navigation...

Z. Anthony Kruszewski was in a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camp. The conditions were horrible. Many people...

T. Moffatt Burriss spent two and a half years overseas. The Waal River crossing [Annotator’s Note: during Operation...

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