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Cosmo Uttero spent 14 days without a rest [Annotator's Note: while serving with Company H, 2nd Battalion, 175th...

Henry Freedman and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] were loaded in "40 and 8" boxcars and were in a...

After ditching his plane [Annotator's Note: on 12 April 1944 over Perwez, Belgium], Gilbert S. Shawn worked with the...

Harold Stanford Cole was born in New York in 1924. He grew up in a poor family. He loved the 1920s and 1930s. They had...

Zawada recalls the battle at the Shafenburg bridge just before the Hammelburg Raid. His platoon remained in the town of...

Dr. Stanley Jaffe had a lot of fun as a bachelor [Annotator's Note: while serving on a mobile surgical team with the...

James “Jim” William Niederer was born in January 1921 in Waco, Texas. He grew up with 5 siblings and his mother died...

Maxwell Nelson was born in October 1921 in Covington County, Alabama and grew up in the town of Andalusia. The youngest...

Francis J. Cook remembers the Germans treating GIs harshly in the camps. Food was sparse. He lost about 60 pounds in...

Robert Doolan was in the oldest camp [Annotator's Note: Stalag Luft III in Zagań, Poland]. It had been abused by the...

Asked to recount the occasion when he was taken prisoner, Joe Pigott recalled that it was after they blew the bridge at...

Dwain Luce did not have to wait long to go home. When the war was over, each country sent their finest Divisions to...

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