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Winnecken Gerhard was in Russia for some months as a replacement in the Sixth Army. That Army was eventually destroyed...

John Howland and his B-17 bomber crewmates were assigned to the 381st Bomb Group based at Ridgewell, England. They...

Theodore Finkbeiner went on a patrol to snatch a prisoner one night and came to a bridge that had been blown out. They...

All of the training Walter "Babe" Gantz received was compressed. After joining the 95th Medical Battalion in early...

Seymour Mermelstein attended basic training in Miami Beach, Florida. He was then sent to automotive school. He went to...

Frank Bostwick flew 35 missions over Europe. His whole crew stayed together and relatively uninjured during those...

Daniel Farley was hit in the shoulder by a sniper in a church steeple. The Rangers with him shot the sniper. It was not...

Richard Scheerer was sent to New York where he boarded a ship bound for England. They were escorted by the battleship...

Philip Grass thinks the war helped him become a better citizen. At the time, he did not think he sacrificed anything....

Edward Tipper and the troops of the 101st Airborne were very confident about jumping into France. Their training was...

[Annotator's Note: Thomas Eakes served in the US Army Air Forces with the 713th Bombardment Squadron, 448th Bombardment...

Louis Frydman reached Auschwitz by train. While only there for five hours, it was his worst experience of the war. He...

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