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Byron Othello Wilkins was taught what to do if he became a POW but no one figured they would become POWs. They boarded...

David E. Olson was born in 1919 in Alburnett, Iowa. He was of Norwegian ancestry. He was born with a twin brother and...

Gerard Halpern finished high school in 1943 then took one semester at a City College before dropping out and joining...

After leaving the service, Frank Zunno never took advantage of the G.I. Bill because he did not want to have anything...

Julian Gould Brunt's unit [Annotator's Note: 87th Chemical Mortar Battalion] was used frequently when the troops were...

Of all the prisoners Gerard Halpern interrogated there is one who really stands out to him. The man was a German Army...

William H. Biagioni was pulled from Holland and placed in some barracks in France. Not long after they had settled in,...

Bud Olson [Annotator's Note: with Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 401st Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne...

When Bernard Ellenberg [Annotator's Note: assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division as a typist for the Stars and Stripes,...

Philip Grass remembers being near Port Moresby [Annotator’s Note: Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea]. Their encampment had...

Samuel Lombardo did not think much of the German people. He felt they were negligent in allowing Hitler's [Annotator's...

John Weinart notes that the previous story was probably the closest he ever got to being killed. It was not an unusual...

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