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Gerald Claassen was born in Buffalo Center, Iowa in December 1920. His father died at the age of 26 when Claassen was...

Gus Blass, II and his men were able to find some P-47s [Annotator's Note: Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft]...

Earl Flanagan and his artillery outfit were transferred from a mule outfit into a triangular division of the 71st...

Jack Appel served in the message center [Annotator's Note: Company B, 17th Signal Operation Battalion, 1st Army]...

John H. Price, Jr. felt elation with the end of the war in Europe. He and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 609th...

Harold Paul wanted to join the Air Corps [Annotator's Note: the US Army Air Corps, later the Air Forces] as an aerial...

A great deal of camaraderie had been established in the unit, especially among the guys Fred Hirsekorn had been in the...

The location Gordon Higgins was sent for occupation duty was at Dachau, near Munich, Germany. There were 10,000 German...

Lionel Baxter did not have much to celebrate with when the war was over. Baxter was discharged in November 1945 in...

The 3rd Infantry Division assimilated all of its regiments into the 3rd Division's headquarters at Fort Lewis,...

John Kerner was still in Normandy, when he was told of injured civilians nearby. He took a jeep and some men and went...

Further down the road, they came across the site of a German death march. Ralph Sykes saw emaciated, elderly people...

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