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Walter Sapp had been in his foxhole for eight days. He could not stand or walk. Two men lifted him out and he woke up...

Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld and his fellow prisoners reached Mühlberg [Annotator's Note: Mühlberg, Germany] and Stalag IV-...

Julian Siebert was born in Westmoreland, Kansas in 1923. Growing up during the 1930s, he saw that everyone was hard up...

Eduardo Alberto Peniche Carvajal recalled his first time jumping out of the plane was exciting and apprehensive....

Charles R. Smith was born in Chicago, Illinois in June 1924. His father was a window washer. His mother was a housewife...

William Meyer spent a total of about 24 hours in England before being put aboard another ship and crossing the Channel...

Abe Milkis found the German troops to be good fighters. At the end, the enemy soldiers were just a bunch of young kids...

Following the Normandy breakout, David Olson and his outfit [Annotator’s Note: the 87th Armored Field Artillery...

The end of the war was approaching. Baum went to the command platoon, to Abrams, to get permission to rejoin the troops...

Earl Forstall remembers another time a plane came back with a lot of hits. The right wing had taken a direct hit. He...

Kaare Allan Johnson and his unit [Annotator's Note: 596th Parachute Combat Engineer Company, 517th Parachute Infantry...

Clarence Anderson had to fly differently than usual because of the amount of fuel he had aboard. All of the fighters...

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