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By 21 March [Annotator's Note: 21 March 1945], the American forces were getting close so John Mock and his fellow...

Shortly after arriving at Auschwitz [Annotator's Note: Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp complex in German...

In 1944,Vernon Schmidt began his military training with a cannon company on the 105mm howitzer [Annotator's Note: M2A1...

Carl Platkin was born in September 1924 in New York City [Annotator’s Note: New York City, New York]. His father worked...

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

Eugene T. Leavy was born on 26 November 1925 in New York City. At a young age, he moved with his family to the Jamaica...

Robert A. Stachel [Annotator's Note: a tail gunner in the 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group] was part...

When John Luckadoo was on his bomb run [Annotators Note: during the 8 October 1943 mission to Bremen] it was terribly...

In Seattle the ship was opened to the pubic to try to convince them to keep working hard. Ari Phoutrides believes that...

Kelly Kuwayama was away from his unit for about three weeks before he had to rejoin them. The 44nd was sent back to...

Bernard Hillenbrand does not recall too much of when he landed on Omaha Beach [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied...

Lutz Windisch and his fellow prisoners [Annotator's Note: he was taken prisoner by Russian forces near Breslau, Poland...

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