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Warren Peiffer was born in 1926 in Bethel, Pennsylvania. His father died when he was seven years old. He has one sister...

Malcolm Higgins received messages from home [Annotator's note: while a prisoner of war at the Stalag Luft III POW camp...

Alois Kopp was aboard the USS Houston (CA-30) defending Java when the ship was sunk. He survived and was taken prisoner...

Harry Snyder was born in August 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was an only child who lived with his mother and...

Richard O. "Otto" Bertz had never been as cold as he was in combat. He still has trouble with his feet and goes to bed...

Robert Heller was born in December 1921 in Lake Wood, Ohio and became a member of the United States Army's 91st Bomb...

The Germans opened up fire on Paul Wilson and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company A, 193rd Glider Infantry Regiment,...

Fred Hirsekorn's first combat was in the Vosges Mountains. They moved so much and so fast that they all lost track of...

About 2 December [Annotator's Note: 2 December 1944] James Alspaugh and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 102nd Infantry...

Terry Shima's older brother had been drafted before the war and served in the 100th Infantry Battalion [Annotator's...

Ivan Bodis-Wollner does not remember arriving at Bergen-Belsen [Annotator's Note: Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near...

Joel Urice remembers the weather was terrible. They had to go through an overcast. There was an opening in the clouds...

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