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They were taken across the Rhine River on a streetcar then put into an underground dungeon [Annotators Note: American...

Edward G. Willette and his division [Annotator's Note: Willette was a mortarman in Company E, 2nd Battalion, 413th...

Reitmeier was aboard a troopship [Annotator’s Note: the SS Léopoldville with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 264th Infantry...

When orders came about a month after D-Day [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944],...

Norman Weber and his family were protected by the Americans [Annotator’s Note: The two Weber children had been born in...

[Annotator's Note: There is a sound of a clock ticking in the background]. Chester Sharp and his crew [Annotator's Note...

John L. Cowan went on active duty in February or March 1945. He was at MIT [Annotator's Note: Massachusetts Institute...

Lowell Kermit Brueland born in a small town in Iowa. He was raised on farm two miles from town. Brueland’s father was...

After some time in Auschwitz [Annotator's Note: Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp complex in...

A great deal of camaraderie had been established in the unit, especially among the guys Fred Hirsekorn had been in the...

[Annotator's Note: Wilhelm Gehlen was a boy growing up in Viersen, Germany during World War 2. He was in the Jungvolk...

William Burrus first experienced combat at the Moselle River [Annotator's Note: near Koblenz, Germany on 14 March 1945...

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