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The artillery in the Hurtgen Forest was tree burst artillery which prevented men from digging foxholes in the cold...

M. Edward Melton knew he was going to be drafted. If he volunteered, he would have a better chance to go into the Army...

Harry Bell could not believe that they were surrendering. They had not fired a shot since leaving the front lines. The...

Richard Yeagely was at Buchenwald [Annotator's Note: Leipzig-Thekla, subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp in...

Clarence Herbert Weatherwax served in the 298th Infantry Regiment which was a National Guard unit in federal service....

Dr. Stanley Jaffe's single most memorable experience of World War 2 was leaving Chamonix [Annotator's Note: Chamonix-...

Robert Guitard went to Livorno [Annotator's Note: Livorno, Italy] to a replacement depot. They got news that General...

While in Innsbruck [Annotator's Note: Innsbruck, Austria], Wayne Peer and the men in his platoon [Annotator's Note: I...

[Annotator's Note: There is a loud hissing noise throughout this clip.] When Bernard B. "Bernie" Bluestein was very...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear airplanes flying overhead throughout segment.] John R. Eisenach’s most memorable experience...

Leonard Jindra returned to Normandy [Annotator's Note: Normandy, France] decades after D-Day [Annotator's Note: D-Day;...

Wayne Pierce grew up in the small farming community of Polo, Illinois. He was drafted in June 1941 six months before...

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