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Carl Light was born in a small town in southern Missouri and was inducted at Fort Leonard Wood [Annotator's Note: Fort...

Melvin Dahlberg's first time abroad was in Italy which was very rundown. The local people were begging for food. He...

Judah Samet was a willing fighter in the Israeli Defense Force. Jews have been warriors since the time of Abraham. The...

Heywood Mason [Annotator's Note: assigned to a Machine Records Unit] was guarding German prisoners of war at Camp Lee [...

Irving Baum [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] was told to put on his clothes and was taken out of solitary [...

Lorenzo Dow Crews was born in April 1924 in Memphis [Annotator's Note: Memphis, Tennessee]. His father worked as a...

[Annotator's Note: Gus Blass, II served in the Army as the commanding officer of Troop A, 24th Cavalry Reconnaissance...

Irving Becker was born in 1921 in Vienna, Austria and grew up there. He was an only child. His father was a shoe...

Leonard Spivey lived in a combine, which was a group of six prisoners in one living space. They were allowed to stay...

After Paul Hilton Madden Jr. volunteered for service, he was sent from Camp Beauregard [Annotator’s Note: Camp...

Frank Bostwick was born in 1925 in Blanchard, Louisiana and grew up in Blanchard during the Great Depression. His...

Baum was sickened by the sight and the situation. He had to regroup his men and come up with a plan to get back to the...

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