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The hardest part of boot camp was being told what to do. Charles R. Smith was 18 years old when he went in. He had to...

Manfred Bahman and his family fled Dresden [Annotator’s Note: Dresden, Germany] after the Allies had destroyed the city...

James Craig remembers when Eisenhower [Annotator's Note: General of the Army Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower, Supreme...

Mack Fitzgerald was a B-24 Liberator flight engineer from Georgia, assigned to the 409th Bombardment Squadron, 93rd...

Alan Moskin always says he is one of the lucky ones. He got emotional some time ago speaking and some of the guilt...

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

After the Battle of the Bulge, Elmer Knudsen was deployed close to the Rhine River and was billeted in a private...

They were attempting to cross a river in order to capture an airfield that was suspected of housing German transport...

Lieutenant John Marr led his advanced party along a hedgerow ahead of the main group of Company G, 507th Parachute...

Marvin Sussman struggled with readjusting to civilian life and had trouble making plans for his future. He attended...

Joseph Lesniewski went into the US Army Air Forces and was sent to California. He was in ten different camps while...

M. Edward Melton knew he was going to be drafted. If he volunteered, he would have a better chance to go into the Army...

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