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John Holton Ford was born in October 1921 in Hamilton, Ohio. He was also raised there. After the war, the family moved...

While in combat in the Normandy's hedgerow country, an entire patrol from John Witmeyer's unit was killed by a German...

Holly Frederick Reynolds was born in Lynchburg, Virginia. She was born in Virginia because her mother was there at the...

Kaare Allan Johnson was born in May 1924 in Staten Island, New York [Annotator's Note: Staten Island is one of the five...

The whole world was at war. Rackley had to read about what was happening after the war because it was such a broad one...

Morton Brooks had veteran buddies that shared experiences, although not many had anything similar to what he endured....

Joseph Armanini tells a story about how the tail of a B-17 [Annotators Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber...

A few days later, Gerhard Franzky was caught by surprise as the allies launched Operation Market Garden. On 17...

Paul Wilson is amazed that some men survived the war. The training they went through did not help them. The real heroes...

Robert Martin wanted to join the Navy because his friend had gone in before he did. He was a year or two older than him...

[Annotator’s Note: There is traffic noise in the background throughout this segment.] Thomas Beary was born Whitman,...

[Annotator's Note: After the war ended in Europe, David Foerster was assigned to a hurricane tracking crew out of Key...

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