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In all of the investigations, Whitney Harris said, survivors of the concentration camp at Auschwitz came forward with...

The Germans would use flares at night and drop them over the American convoy. At night this would illuminate the fleet...

In the early part of 1944, Irvin C. Klimas and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Thompson (DD-627)] were put in a...

Jack Madden took his basic training for the United States Navy in Newport, Rhode Island. He originally signed up to...

Edward Dunne [Annotator's Note: a crewmen aboard the USS LST-53] has no particular memory of D-Day [Annotator's Note: D...

Paul Rothenheber was never in direct action. He thought France was strange. He was knocked out in Le Havre [Annotator's...

Joseph Hartmann was in the "52-20 club" [Annotator's Note: a government-funded program that paid unemployed veterans 20...

Joseph Brannan was in a crew on PT-305 that was composed of two officers and from 12 to 14 enlisted men. The enlisted...

William Cassady thinks people should study the war because it will show how the United States got where they are now....

Theodore Vallas joined the Navy in 1939 when students in college were being prepared to go to the anticipated war....

Bob Bartlett [Annotator's Note: assigned to USS Barnett (APA-5)], was up most of the night before the invasion of...

Alois Kopp returned from the war in a mood to celebrate. He ate and drank far too much and was advised by his father to...

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