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In late summer 1944, a German military captain was housed in Elvira Maria Katarina Algermissen Leskovec's family home [...

The following day, Richard Scheerer was sent to a hospital on shore. One day Scheerer had to have his lungs aspirated....

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...

Dominick Sgobbo remembered taking prisoners back to headquarters and having to prevent non-combatants from mistreating...

Lieutenant John Marr's first patrol from Timmes' orchard was sent to find any American or other friendly forces in the...

Marvin Sussman says no single incident stands out to him as the most memorable except for living with the loss of...

Russell Van Matre was born in March 1922 in Elsberry, Missouri with two brothers and two sisters. His grandparents were...

Edgar R. "Ross" Forman was born in October 1923 in Camden, New Jersey, and would serve with the 319th Engineer Combat...

Philip Grass [Annotator’s Note: who enlisted in the Army in 1942] remembers they had to learn all they could [Annotator...

Joseph Dean Reilly [Annotator's Note: with Headquarters, 3rd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st...

Victor Fienup went to Paris [Annotator's Note: Paris, France] on V-E Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8...

There was a set procedure for ditching an airplane which they had practiced before. Everyone except the pilot and...

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