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[Annotator’s Note: There is talking in the background throughout this segment.] William Meyer was assigned as a...

James A. Griffis was born in Lake Forest, Illinois in October 1924. His father was a general contractor. Lake Forest...

Leonard Jindra returned to Normandy [Annotator's Note: Normandy, France] decades after D-Day [Annotator's Note: D-Day;...

Joseph Komito knew most of the people working in his first camp in Mielec [Annotator's Note: his hometown of Mielec,...

In addition to making him more alert, the war also improved Walter Broll's outlook on life. In meeting a former Me-109...

James Craig was a corporal and knew shorthand. A commanding officer wanted him to be his secretary. Craig did not want...

Abe Milkis was called up soon after finishing high school. After being drafted, he found himself on bivouac in a tent...

John Angier went to Maxwell Field [Annotator's Note: now Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama] for...

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

Leo Terrebonne was assigned to the 1302nd Engineer General Service Regiment, 1st Battalion, Company C, and he endured a...

When Vernon Grimes sent to Port Moresby, New Guinea [Annotator's Note: as part of the 64th Bombardment Squadron, 43rd...

A Serbian doctor in the hospital hid Baum. By this point, he had discarded his dog tags because if the Germans had...

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