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On Christmas Day 1944, William M. Barnett [Annotator’s Note: with the 222nd Infantry Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division]...

The war matured Robert Whitcomb. Before he was drafted he was determined to become a musician. After the war, he used...

Fred Gordon was born in 1918 in Emerson, Nebraska. He was one of nine children and his father was a teacher during the...

Darold Rice reached the peak of Hill 122 and had gone to ground to wait for further orders. While lying there, a German...

Frank Jasicko’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was bailing out of an airplane for the first time and the fear...

Battle Malone Barksdale was the youngest of seven children. He was born in February 1916 in Mississippi [Annotator's...

Allen Porter [Annotator's Note: with Company B, 303rd Engineer Combat Battalion, 78th Infantry Division] had a seven-...

Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld was liberated by Russian soldiers [Annotator's Note: he was a prisoner of war in Stalag III-B...

Fred Whitaker learned to make lists of things to do from the Army. The Army had an intensity he had never experienced...

[Annotator's Note: Paul Arst and the interviewer discuss some of his old comrades and their current whereabouts.] One...

Erik Johnsen was in school at Tulane, University in New Orleans, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He feels this...

The hedgerows were maybe 1,000 years old and enclosed every acre or two. Joseph Alter says some of them were eight feet...

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