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Michael Cokinos grew up in Beaumont, Texas. During the Great Depression, life was pretty strict for him. His parents...

Bernard Peters was sent to Kern, Utah for basic training. They were in tar paper barracks. They went through a...

Ivan Bodis-Wollner remembers when he was playing with an older child who was the son of a local lawyer. The child's...

William McCowen was assigned to a P-61 Black Widow [Annotator's Note: Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighter aircraft...

Robert Martin got married in 1950. He bought his first house on the GI Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or...

Everything was rationed during the war. George Grugett's dad told him to go to the ration board and get gas stamps. He...

Bernard Knese took off around midnight and crossed the Channel [Annotator’s Note: the English Channel]. They arrived in...

Heywood Mason [Annotator's Note: a Private 1st Class in the US Army 88th Infantry Division] recovered from a case of...

Bernard Kofsky's [Annotator's Note: with the 94th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] worst mission was in Schweinfurt [...

[Annotator's Note: Mark Gordon Hazard, Jr. served in the Army as the commanding officer of Company E, 2nd Battalion,...

Marion Bahlinger recalled one man was assigned as the guard to the group of 20 American prisoners. He was an older man...

Eben Smith was relocated to Camp Lucky Strike in France [Annotator's Note: after being liberated from the Stalag Luft I...

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