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When the American troops landed in Sicily, Lawrence Richard "Red" Gilbert recalls receiving heavy fire from the...

Karl Friedrich "Charley” König [Annotator's Note: or Koenig] is small and had no difficulty in moving around in the...

Walter Broll was born in 1925 in Baltimore, Maryland. He grew up and was educated in Baltimore. During the Great...

After 30 days at home, Walter Ehlers returned to his unit [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion, 18th Infantry...

Robert Tyler Oakes recalls that the prisoners had a homemade radio that they hid from the German guards while he was in...

They hung around in the area [Annotator's Note: the crew of the USS Bayfield, near Okinawa] for about twelve days...

One night when they were after a target, the skipper dropped this white handkerchief and James Nerison heard him give...

William Banghart went with the 64th Fighter Wing. He was in several different outfits. In the letters he wrote, he put...

Dominic Della Vedova completed landings in North Africa [Annotator's Note: the Allied invasion of North Africa,...

On Christmas Day 1943 [Annotator's Note: 25 December 1943], Norman Raner was transferred to a little airfield. Mark...

Harley Reynolds and his unit disembarked from Sicily near the beach where they landed. There was a convoy on the way...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks very slowly throughout this segment.] Taylor Howard was born in October 1918 in...

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