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Philip Grass and his unit [Annotator’s Note: 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division] left Leyte and...

Wallace Hurley seldom knew where he was when he was in combat. He entered France and fought there before crossing into...

Mann doesn't recall smelling the camp before seeing it. Dachau was not as much of an extermination camp as it was a...

Byron Othello Wilkins and other POWs worked in a nearby town called Euskirchen. They unloaded boxcars and one man found...

Joseph Taliancich did basic training at Camp Beauregard [Annotator’s Note: Camp Beauregard, Louisiana], then he was...

Joseph Alter does not remember how he heard that the war was over. He was uncomfortable because that evening they left...

Vernon Tweedt and his unit [Annotator's Note: Battery A, 131st Field Artillery Battalion, 36th Infantry Division] were...

The first rounds of artillery fire are often shot way over where you think the troops are and then you fire back to...

When Robert Spint first went in the TDs [Annotator's Note: tank destroyers; Spint was a member of the 651st Tank...

[Annotator's Note: The audio level of this interview is very low.] Moving on to Sarreguemines, France, near the...

The French Foreign Legion decided to fight with the Allies. Charles Scheffel stayed in the tunnel in Algiers that night...

For the remainder of the war Michael Cokinos was a company commander in the 83rd Infantry Division. He served as a...

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