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Biddle was not allowed to return to combat because he was being put up for the Medal of Honor. He was told that he had...

After being drafted, Richard Yeagely went to Fort McClellan, Alabama [Annotator's Note: then Camp McClellan in Anniston...

Harper Harvey Coleman and his unit [Annotator's Note: 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division] had...

Itka Zygmuntowicz learned to appreciate life in Auschwitz because she could lose her life at any second. Even among the...

Ernest Chauvin got orders to go to Korea [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953] and spent a year...

Freddie Ohr realized the weather was bad. The ground crew said no one could fly. Ohr stayed a couple of nights in Paris...

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

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

Robert Doolan was in the oldest camp [Annotator's Note: Stalag Luft III in Zagań, Poland]. It had been abused by the...

John Witmeyer recognizes the value of The National World War II Museum and is glad that the museum affords the public...

Bud Olson volunteered for overseas duty in October 1943. Sent to a replacement depot in England, Olson volunteered for...

Stewart Hihn was born in Baltimore, Maryland in August 1923. His father died when he was only 21 months old, and he was...

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