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Alois Kopp was aboard the USS Houston (CA-30) defending Java when the ship was sunk. He survived and was taken prisoner...

[Annotator’s Note: The video glitches and the video and sound are sometimes not synchronized throughout the segment.]...

Mann was initially sent to Camp Lee, Virginia where he got his uniforms and his vaccination shots. He then took 17...

Winnecken Gerhard joined the German Army in October 1942. His camp was at Verdun near Metz. Verdun was a walled city...

One could fire automatically from the hip. The M-1 could get muddy, wet, and whatever else and it would fire. The...

Eben Smith was born in August 1923 in Pasadena, California. He remembers his childhood as being unremarkable; his...

Jack Appel served in the message center [Annotator's Note: Company B, 17th Signal Operation Battalion, 1st Army]...

Burt Richard Sadler believes Great Britain and the United States will always be friends. He visits the Eight Air Force...

Even though many of the German pilots were under-qualified the 109 [Annotator's Note: German Messerschmitt Me-109...

Robert Heller was flying at an unnerving altitude and had not yet reached his target when his plane was overtaken by...

Fred Gordon recalls being under constant enemy fire for weeks. He was eventually transferred from the observation post...

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