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Opal James Grapes was born in Franklin County, Virginia in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She grew up on a farm...

Donelson Houseman experienced a terrible event after he was liberated. He went into town and could see the tanks [...

By December 1944, Frank Zunno's jump school training was complete. Around Christmas Day 1944, Zunno boarded the Queen...

After liberating Rome, Italy, Don Tallon and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 142nd Infantry...

Sidney LaPook joined the 4th Auxiliary Surgical Group about a week before the war ended. He was hoping to be able to...

Before he went in the service, Donald Evans never went to church. Over there, he prayed all the time to be kept safe....

One day they attacked the city of Leipzig [Annotator's Note: Germany]. It was industrial, like Birmingham, Pittsburgh,...

Delbert Wombacher enlisted in December 1939 at Fort Crook, Nebraska [Annotator's Note: now Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha...

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

Toward the end of the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes Counter Offensive,...

Frederick Freeman was born in Saint Louis County in Kirkwood [Annotator's Note: Kirkwood, Missouri] in May 1925. His...

During the first attack the Germans walked toward Milosevich's position. No tanks were sent at them for fear that they...

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