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Robert Guitard and his family listened to the news of the war over the radio. One of his brothers was in the 5th Army...

When the troops' Christmas packages were arriving in 1944, Gordon Higgins' unit [Annotator's Note: 2nd Battalion, 407th...

Wilford E. Hastings drafted into the Army in 1943 and was sent to Chattanooga, Tennessee for induction. He was then...

Lionel Baxter was trained to handle ammunition [Annotator's Note: as part of a gun crew in Battery A, 941st Field...

Robert Max does not believe he suffered any lasting effects from the war in terms of shell shock, but says it has been...

Alexander Jefferson listened to the BBC radio at the POW camp, but had no idea about the landings in Southern France....

John Scott Campbell lost three ships. The one [Annotator's Note: SS Andrew G. Curtin, sunk 1944] in the Barents Sea [...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear noise in the background throughout the beginning of the segment.] Cecil N. Duck served on...

Joseph Yourkavitch was a prisoner for about eight months. There was no radio in the camp and there was no word of the...

The 2nd Division took Leipzig, Germany. It was heavily fortified. In Leipzig they found doorways and stairways that led...

Robert Rans was placed in a room with three other wounded prisoners of war at the Timisul de Jos prison camp in Timisu...

Judith Rothenberg [Annotator's Note: a Belgian Jewish child at the time of the war] arrived in Paris [Annotator's Note...

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