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Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld had a horrible experience in the English Channel. He, along with many other troops, got very...

Carl Payne went to Italy right after the invasion started. They landed in the Port of Rome [Annotator’s Note: Rome,...

Byron Othello Wilkins stopped at a gasthaus while traveling on a bicycle with other ex POWs. Wilkins saw an American...

Backtracking to the time when he was outside of Valmontone, Italy, Robert Boyer recounted an incident when they [...

On 8 May 1945, the war ended, and R.M. Wilkes was told to stand down. After a few weeks, he was sent to Czechoslovakia...

James Harvard London returned to Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston, Massachusetts] on the same ship that took him to...

James Alspaugh joined the 102nd Infantry Division at Camp Swift [Annotator's Note: in Bastrop County, Texas] in 1944....

Raymond VanDuzer was inducted into the service then sent to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He was not sure what he wanted...

Heywood Mason [Annotator's Note: a Private 1st Class in the US Army 88th Infantry Division] dug foxholes, and when rain...

His expertise was not required for the invasion of Normandy [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6...

Vernon Leopold vividly remembers the positions of the foxholes and emplacements that his platoon [Annotator's Note: the...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks slowly and pauses several times throughout segment.] After the combat at the...

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