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As a veteran, John Witmeyer believes in the importance and the value of history, especially the history of World War 2...

William Leo Spaetgens was changed by World War 2. He hated school with a passion. After making it to the tenth grade,...

William Pena followed a trail through the woods and kept encountering groups of men asking for the two platoons on the...

Gerard Dillon was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in January 1920. His mother was a...

Galloway notes that as long as he was ahead of the German officers behind him he could sneak into a house. Galloway...

Arthur Spaulding was in charge of a gun [Annotator's Note: in 2nd Platoon, Company B, 91st Chemical Mortar Battalion]....

Frank Fontana went into Holland then Belgium. He was a supply sergeant for the whole outfit [Annotator's Note: 93rd...

All through his service, Thomas Payn corresponded with his family, but he couldn't say too much about his activities....

Lynn Compton goes by the nickname Buck. Compton was born and raised in Los Angeles. He went to high school and then to...

[Annotator's Note: Through the 50 minutes that make up this clip, Melvin Linkous reviews period photographs of the men...

Herman Yates was asked to go on reconnaissance with an officer and a driver to a little town where some Americans were...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was taking part in Operation Tiger, or Exercise Tiger, April 1944, preparing for the D-...

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