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When Harry Bell steamed into New York Harbor one of the first things he saw was the Statue of Liberty. When he saw it...

Jerome "Jerry" Riga was on a mission and saw a tank. As he went down to strafe it, Riga was hit by antiaircraft fire....

William Howard went to Scotland. His father was born in Scotland and he still has relatives there. Howard and Bob [...

Warren Schmitt was one of 14 survivors from his battery [Annotators Note: survivors of the Malmedy Massacre]. All 14 of...

Howard Genrich went overseas in October 1944. Information about the progress of the war was available to him. He was at...

When they got to the Marshall Islands they had to go over the side of the ship; that was a hard thing to do. He did not...

Rip Rice remembers they were trying to get the Germans to give up. They were going to take a town on the night of 18...

[Annotator's Note: Winnecken Gerhard speaks largely in German in this segment with very limited translation to English...

On days that Paul Lefever didn't fly, he would watch other squadrons take off, identify planes by their numbers, and...

Charles Coolidge took sheep into a minefield instead of sending men through it to be sure there were no mines. Early in...

Clinton Gardner never thought of his own death but watched a few hundred men die. Gardner got sick and threw up around...

On 10 June 1942 Sidney LaPook graduated from NYU Dental College. He became engaged to his future wife that same day. At...

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