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Paul Maymon [Annotator’s Note: with the 17th Field Artillery Regiment] occupied a small German village after the war’s...

Ivan Van der Pool believes having The National WWII Museum [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans, Louisiana] is important...

Fred Topel decided to go into the National Guard with a few other friends. He was only 16 years old, so he had to lie...

F.M. Richard Simons was born in Hershey, Pennsylvania in December 1925. He lived there his whole life. He attended...

Erwin Blonder remembers Marty Higgins [Annotator's Note: US Army Captain Martin J. Higgins] sending a sergeant and 35...

Rothacker Smith underwent weeks of training amid a racially tense situation at Camp Stewart, Georgia. Smith was one of...

The Germans were formidable because of their early conquests like the blitzkrieg [Annotator's Note: method of warfare...

Edward LaPorta and the other POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] did not hear them [Annotator's Note: the German...

In May 1944, Walter Henry Barton's regiment [Annotator's Note: Barton was a member of Cannon Company, 361st Infantry...

Charles Scheffel was born in Eden, Oklahoma in 1919. His father was an illegal immigrant from Sweden and passed away...

Tokuji Yoshihashi was born in January 1923 in Pasadena, California. He was one of five children. Times were tough for...

Edward J. Leonard remembers going into Rome [Annotator’s Note: Rome, Italy]. They had not had any sleep for a few days...

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