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[Annotator's Note: Richard Field served in the Army as a paratrooper with the 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion, then...

Stanley Jack Birnbaum fought the war that was considered a "popular war" because it was necessary. He was a tall,...

All of the men in Zawada's squad wondered why they were going behind German lines to liberate Hammelburg. Rumors...

Don Carter was born in January 1925 in Wellsville, New York and grew up in Hornell [Annotator's Note: Hornell, New York...

Carl Payne was born in December 1919 in Herrick, Pennsylvania. He grew up in a dairy farm community. His father left...

Stanley Boyd Nance served with the 11th Armored Division and was selected to be part of a top secret organization...

Harvey Segal knew nothing of the concentration camps before he entered Germany. When he and his battalion [Annotator's...

Gerard Halpern was with the I and R Platoon [Annotators Note: the Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon of the 180th...

Walter Trauner went through a line and was told he would be in the Army. He wanted to fly. Basic training was on tank...

Theodore Finkbeiner shipped out of Cape Cod aboard the USS George Washington [Annotators Note: SS George Washington] in...

Robert E. Foster was a Captain at the end of the war after his company commander was shot and he took over. He became a...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Jack Weiss what life aboard the USS Columbia (CL-56) was like.] He had duties....

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