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Virgil Faust was born in 1921 in Windber, Pennsylvania. His father was a carpenter by trade, and maintained housing for...

Byron Othello Wilkins stopped at a gasthaus while traveling on a bicycle with other ex POWs. Wilkins saw an American...

John Angier was taken to Stalag Luft III-A [Annotator's Note: in Sagan, Poland] after being captured near Cologne,...

After serving as MP [Annotator's Note: Military Police in the Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon, 116th Infantry...

Joseph O'Donnell was told he was going overseas by Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo...

Warren Schmitt was always interested in cameras. He liberated two pretty nice cameras in Germany and took up...

Chester J. Butcher [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the 357th Fighter Squadron, 355th Fighter Group, 8th Air...

Norman Riggsby had a postwar career that was not related to his wartime experiences. His most memorable thing about...

After separating Kalil from the rest of the platoon after his capture, the Germans loaded Kalil on a truck and took him...

Irwin Medway encountered anti-Semitism in Tennessee. He was beat up by another soldier. It has something to do with...

After D-Day, Bob Miksa [Annotator’s Note: Robert Miksa] and the 745th Tank Battalion drove to Caumont. That was the...

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

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