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World War II changed John McCarthy and his life tremendously. Without the war, he might have been a factory worker....

Billow remembers going through France, Holland, and Luxemburg. The cities were destroyed by aerial bombardment. There...

The drop zone for Operation Varsity was near Wessel, Germany, and James Pritchett described how General Montgomery's [...

The night when Irving Baum [Annotator's Note: as a prisoner of war] got to Stalag Luft III [Annotator's Note: in Sagan...

Sydney Levit's most memorable experience of World War 2 were the men that he was serving with and their close...

[Annotator's Note: William Nesser served aboard the SS Kalliopi in Russia where they loaded lumber for England.] They...

Richard "Dick" Willhour returned from a rest camp as the outfit [Annotator's Note: 100th Infantry Division] was moving...

Seymour Reitman was near Regensburg, Austria, when Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd...

Alois Kopp was in the water for nine hours before being picked up by Japanese [Annotator’s Note: After his ship, the...

Stanley Jack Birnbaum was offered a fellowship in cybernetics which was the forerunner of computers. He elected to...

John Rogers recalls that the area they were operating in and out of was Modave, Belgium. Modave was where they lost the...

The people from one of the camps [Annotator's Note: he is referring to concentration camps]. They looked like ghosts in...

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