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Robert Rupp was anxious to get home, even though he had only been gone about 18 months. He had a Bronze Star [Annotator...

[Annotator’s Note: A washing machine running in the background is audible throughout this segment.] Gerald “Gerry”...

Robert W. "Doby" Gibson was born in Utica, Mississippi in August 1924. He was nicknamed, "Doby", after a professional...

John Noack notes that it was a sad day when they returned to base. Everyone was down about it. Too many of the guys...

In 1940, Manfred Bahman joined the Junior Hitler Youth [Annotator's Note: a youth organization of the Nazi Party for...

The first thing the Americans did was open the German breweries, according to William Jucksch. They established...

Walter Sapp's father had been in World War 1 and knew what infantry was about. Sapp did not consult with his family...

[Annotator's Note: An interviewer asks Thomas J. Blakey if he is familiar with US Army Lieutenant General Lewis Hyde...

Edward Dunne [Annotator's Note: a crewmember aboard the USS LST-53] did not like the Germans or the Japanese. He still...

Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld was liberated by Russian soldiers [Annotator's Note: he was a prisoner of war in Stalag III-B...

Nicholas J. Zuras headed back out to sea [Annotator's Note: after firing all of the rockets on his rocket boat at Omaha...

Bill Schwartz [Annotator's Note: assigned to the 115th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division] calls his combat...

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