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Henry Schaller was born in April 1924 in Chicago, Illinois. He attended school there until he went to college. His...

Elvira Maria Katarina Algermissen Leskovec was born in February 1928 in Hildesheim, Germany. She had one sister who was...

Carl Payne was born in December 1919 in Herrick, Pennsylvania. He grew up in a dairy farm community. His father left...

Donelson Houseman got a ten day leave and went home. After reporting back, he was assigned to Fort Fisher, North...

Hewitt Brian Gomez and his crew [Annotator's Note: 857th Bombardment Squadron, 801st Bombardment Group (Provisional)]...

John Arthur Stege flew across the Atlantic to England then on to Gibraltar and to North Africa [Annotator's Note: as a...

Stegmeier enlisted because everybody was doing it. There was a draft going on and if you didn't enlist you would be...

Roy Creek remembers the chaos at Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June...

Winfield Zerphey was reunited with his family in Pennsylvania following his separation from the Navy. He had a brief...

Harold Berkman returned to the United States via New York harbor. He arrived at night with the Statue of Liberty and...

John Mock ended up at Stalag XII-A [Annotator's Note: in Limburg, Germany]. The latrine in the camp overflowed every...

Kaare Allan Johnson and his unit [Annotator's Note: 596th Parachute Combat Engineer Company, 517th Parachute Infantry...

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