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Clinton Gardner went back to England and stayed in the field hospital. He had an operation using skin from his leg to...

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

The Hartz Mountains [Annotators Note: also referred to as the Harz Mountains, Germany] contained many Hitler Youth...

Henry Langrehr grew up during the Great Depression in Clinton [Annotator's Note: Clinton, Iowa]. It was a hard time....

Cosmo Uttero and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry...

Harold Roed [Annotator's Note: with the 515th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 13th Airborne Division] had a furlough [...

Siegfried Weinthal's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he returned to his hometown of Esens, Germany as...

Joe Crandall believes that the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944,...

In 1949, Herbert W. Ridyard took a job with NACA, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which was the forerunner...

Lou Brissie's Uncle Robert was around the same age as he was and was more like a brother to him. Robert was already in...

John Lillibridge was sent overseas to Europe with a XXIII Corps artillery unit as a topography interpreter. His ship...

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

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