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In July of 1944, John Witmeyer and his men were some of the first American troops to cross the Seine River in France....

Edward Thomas Toole stayed in Barin Field [Annotator's Note: Barin Field is a Naval outlying station in Foley, Alabama...

Before he got to Saint-Lo [Annotator's Note: Battle of Saint-Lô, 7 to 19 July 1944; Saint-Lô, France], Frank Forcinella...

Wallace Jeffery arrived in Scotland and was transported by train to his new camp in England. He stayed there for four...

Lionel Baxter went through an opening in a huge gate [Annotator's Note: at the Buchenwald concentration camp near...

Robert "Bob” Ruiz [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the 389th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] managed a plant after the...

Arthur Seltzer matured very quickly as a result of the war. He was 18 when he was drafted and 19 on Omaha Beach. He...

Frank Bostwick was en route back to the United States when the Germans surrendered on 8 May 1945. His air missions over...

Frank Dolsen, [Annotator's Note: with the 349th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] became a...

[Annotator's Note: Severin Fayerman survived concentration camps in Europe. The interviewer asks if the pendulum swings...

William Meredith was born in Norfolk [Annotator’s Note: Norfolk, Virginia]. They went through the Depression [Annotator...

Chester Strunk and his fellow crewmen were approached by locals on horseback immediately following their parachute...

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