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Barbara Heming's story is similar to all of those Germans who came from the east during the bleak period in the 1940s...

Harley Bridger and his crew lived in tents with six men each. They were fortunate with their engineer. Bridger felt the...

Donald Albert Carlson enlisted in the Army Air Force [Annotator's Note: in September 1942]. He got on a train from Penn...

Rodney Charles Fraser had nightmares after his time in combat [Annotator’s Note: Fraser was serving with the 29th...

After the war ended, Baum returned to New York to get some of his wounds taken care of. He was so happy, because of his...

Julian Gould Brunt recalls getting trapped by a barrage and had to seek shelter in some old German foxholes. [Annotator...

On 23 February 1945, R.M. Wilkes crossed the Roer River [Annotator's Note: at Roerdorf, or Rohrdorf, Germany]. Rogers'...

The first time somebody shoots at you, the bullet pops when it goes past your head. Robert E. Foster remembers that...

William "Bill" Parker was born in November 1924 in Torrance, California. Parker grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In his...

Chester Strunk views The National WWII Museum as a valuable asset to teach people about the sacrifices made not only by...

John Steven Getway [Annotator's Note: a paratrooper with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division...

Joseph Brannan was born in Gillett, Arkansas in 1922. Raised during the Great Depression, his father had a business in...

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