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The first rounds of artillery fire are often shot way over where you think the troops are and then you fire back to...

The worst aspects about Hugh Colbert's prisoner of war experience included his uncertainty regarding the future, the...

Robert Whelan's most memorable experience of the war came in Siegburg [Annotator's Note: Siegburg , Germany] on 30...

In June 1943, two weeks before his 18th birthday, William M. Barnett was given permission to leave prep school [...

Herbert W. Ridyard was called up for service on his birthday, 6 July [Annotator's Note: 6 July 1943]. He had previously...

Arnold Debrick would try to do just about anything. They were proceeding across France on a train and Debrick and a...

Joseph Lesniewski and Ed [Annotator's Note: Private Edward J. Joint] took off and were looking for more people. It took...

George Kays had completed five years of service and had a wife and child at home. He was sent a telegram in Germany...

[Annotator's Note: Philip Whitman was captured after bailing out of his Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber and...

To Harry Quinn, combat was the closest thing to Hell that a person could experience. Sleep was disrupted at night by...

Gatewood did not disclose his experiences with his family. He kept up correspondence with his bombardier and navigator...

After Christmas [Annotator's Note: 25 December 1944], Joseph J. Drake was in the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note...

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