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Robert "Bob" Rickel wanted to fly with his friend, Tony [Annotator's Note: US Army Air Forces Staff Sergeant Anthony J...

Bernard Knese found out he was going into the Army Air Force when he went to basic training. Basic training lasted two...

After the war in Europe ended, Jerome Fatora was sent to Czechoslovakia to train for the fighting in Japan. While he...

The Rangers de-trucked in Kleinhaus at about two in the morning of 7 December 1944 then marched a couple of miles to...

Joseph Lesniewski got on a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship]. There were only 19...

Dora Langsam wanted to be an American after her experiences in the Holocaust [Annotator's Note: also called the Shoah;...

Bernard Ellenberg's [Annotator's Note: assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division as a typist for the Stars and Stripes,...

Harold Beal is glad he served and would do it again. Somebody must take care of the country. When he talks to children...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Rans about what sounds he heard after being hit by enemy fire.] Robert...

The next shocking thing Vernon Breen remembers was that as the war was winding down, a lot of the Germans got out of...

George Shenkle [Annotator's Note: serving with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] was...

Rosette Goldstein met her father at a farm after fleeing Paris. They adored each other. She was not afraid because he...

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