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Aschaffenburg, Germany was secured quickly. The Germans sent word that they wanted to surrender but would only do so to...

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

Arley Jett was born in 1922 in Breathitt County, Kentucky. He grew up in Canoe, Kentucky and near Cincinnati, Ohio....

Richard Frothingham's unit [Annotator's Note: 656th Field Artillery Battalion] got word that they were being...

John Ericson went through a training period [Annotator's Note: after being assigned to Company B, 2nd Battalion, 194th...

John Weinart notes that three months after he got to Europe there were only ten of them left. Many were killed, injured...

On 23 February 1945, R.M. Wilkes crossed the Roer River [Annotator's Note: at Roerdorf, or Rohrdorf, Germany]. Rogers'...

Kenneth H. Bailey and his future wife did a lot of talking about the war before he was drafted. In England, they...

Walter N. Gaterman was born in Saint Louis in December 1921. He was in the printing trade before the war. He heard...

Philemon Andrews Saint Amant landed in London [Annotator's Note: London, England]. There were troops fighting in North...

Stewart Hihn [Annotator's Note: with the 222nd Infantry Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division] was reminded why they were...

Shirley Guidry was sent to Camp Shelby [Annotator's Note: at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, after enlisting in the Army],...

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