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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...

John Vessey and his unit headed to Fort Dix to prepare to go overseas. They were supposed to go on a French ship but it...

Bruce LaRose [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division in North Africa] had to...

[Annotators Note: Segment begins with a female telling Phillips that she is going to the grocery store and will be...

Karl Friedrich "Charley” König [Annotator's Note: or Koenig] was born in January 1924 in Annaburg [Annotator's Note:...

Raymond Wells was by himself with a .30 caliber machine gun and took out three enemy snipers. He moved to San Pietro...

At Kasserine Pass Edward LaPorta was set up at about the middle of the pass. They were on an outpost and there was a...

Clifford Smith's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when a German horse troop surrendered to his unit [...

On Christmas Day 1943 [Annotator's Note: 25 December 1943], Norman Raner was told he was receiving a battlefield...

Gowan Duffy does not think he came across any man in shock. Some of the men in his unit were dragging because of...

Ehlers served in Company L and Company C of the 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. He enlisted in October...

Lawrence Richard "Red" Gilbert was put on a work detail building houses on a Jewish cemetery. They used the tombstones...

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