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Leedell Neyland thinks sweeping for mines was his most memorable moment of the war. They swept the mines, and they knew...

When Carl Peterson was in the service the guys he served with would get together and have fun. In Sicily they had a...

Rothacker Smith suffered from pains in his foot. In the Army, they would play with the explosives out of hand grenades...

It gradually sunk in to Rothacker Smith that he was a prisoner of war as he believed for the first couple of days in...

Walter Barnes was sent to pick up some German prisoners. When he got to the enemy troops there were about a dozen of...

Roy D. Goad [Annotator’s Note: who served as a captain in the 143rd Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division in Italy...

Darrell Welch did encounter 190s [Annotator's Note: German Focke-Wulf Fw-190 fighter aircraft], which looked a lot like...

Ralph “Bud” Ginrich was not changed by his POW [Annotator’s Note: prisoner of war] experiences. Some Germans were...

Harry Baughman was born in Findlay, Ohio. He grew up there during the Great Depression, when "things were tough." When...

F.M. Richard Simons' worst memories are of the cold and the fear of falling asleep in his foxhole. They had wire with...

Clarence Edward "Ed" Riggs, Jr. was born in Burns, Kansas. His father was a rural mail carrier to support his family...

Arthur Braunstein was born in New York [Annotator’s Note: New York City, New York] in February 1924. His father was a...

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