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Joseph Lesniewski liked his M1 [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as the M1 Garand]. It...

Rip Rice was assigned to the 104th Infantry Division and went overseas in August 1944. They landed in Cherbourg [...

Theodore Finkbeiner and the paratroopers he was with started heading toward Gela. Whenever they heard shooting they...

Samuel Jenkins remembers the raid on Hammelburg. [Annotator's Note: The Hammelburg Raid or Task Force Baum was the...

Manfred Steinfeld was a German Jew [Annotator's Note: who emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938], but...

Aschaffenburg, Germany was secured quickly. The Germans sent word that they wanted to surrender but would only do so to...

Mack Fitzgerald was from Georgia and he enlisted in the Army Air Force. After training as a B-24 Liberator flight...

During the war, rationing was a way of life in England, according to Constance Cresswell. Each person was allotted two...

Chester J. Butcher [Annotator's Note: assigned to the 357th Fighter Squadron, 355th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force at...

Robert G. Frey has spoken more to the interviewer about the war than he has ever previously done. He was there and when...

Christa Schneider spent nine months in the United States when her husband's job landed him in Austin, Texas. She found...

Strange things would happen in the air for Daniel Samuelson. He was well-trained. He would wear a mask for oxygen....

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