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Frank Maresca shipped out from the 54th Street Pier in Brooklyn aboard His Majesty's Ship Franconia, a converted luxury...

Once the war ended, Robert Rupp was in an area of Czechoslovakia for several days. The Germans just poured in. There...

Guy Stern had landed on Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, three days after the invasion [Annotator's Note: 9 June 1944,...

Walter Sapp was in a very difficult battle at the Remagen Bridge [Annotator's Note: Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen,...

Robert Bassemir thinks the war was a big life experience for him. He fought for his country and learned how easily he...

Herbert W. Ridyard joined the 94th Division [Annotator's Note: Ridyard served on a heavy machine gun crew in Company H...

Tom Quigley remembers how after the war ended, they were able to drive with the lights on their cars turned on. On his...

After World War 2, Kaare Allan Johnson did not want to stay in the service and was discharged from the Army. He worked...

Clarence Anderson went on a couple of patrols with an experienced pilot in the lead and was then sent out on his own....

Arthur Albertson did not get as far behind the line [Annotator's Note: the German line] as he thought he could. He got...

Fred Arthur Balfour [Annotator's Note: with SHAEF – Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force] was building huts...

Bernard Knese moved from England to France in early 1945. Knese served in the Korean War [Annotator's Note: Korean War...

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