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William Leo Spaetgens was pulled out of the Navy Armed Guard in January 1945. Many men were removed from that service...

After the Battle of the Ruhr Pocket, Seymour Reitman and his division [Annotator's Note: Reitman was a member of...

Wallace Hurley faced a division of white camouflaged German soldiers who approached the American lines. The Americans...

Louis Cardenas remembers that they were taken from the capture site to Bucharest, Romania, the capital city. They were...

Byron Othello Wilkins, who goes by B.O. Wilkins, was named after his father. He grew up in northeast Arkansas in Luxora...

Harold Roed spent a year and a half at Saint Olaf [Annotator's Note: Saint Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota], a...

Mancel Kirk was selected to go on a 10 man patrol to snatch a prisoner. They passed through the German lines and made...

Nobody talked about the Holocaust with Eva Nathanson. When she first got married, there was a young couple that lived...

Word from intelligence was that Hitler [Annotator's Note: German dictator Adolf Hitler] would make a stand in Bavaria [...

Rita Brandes was in the British Zone of Occupation after the war. Most clothing came from the United States. She had a...

Frank Curtis McBride installed the bombsight [Annotator’s Note: Norden bombsight] in the twin engine Martin bombers [...

Leon Schafer is certain the war affected his life afterwards. Number one, he never left his wife. When he got home, he...

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