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Frank Fontana took his basic training in Camp Barkeley in Texas. It was miserable, desolate country. The training...

Hartsel Ross's most memorable experience of World War 2 was losing his convoy in fog while sailing in the North Sea. He...

[Annotator’s Note: Voices can be heard in the background throughout the segment.] Daniel Altman and his unit [Annotator...

Michael Cokinos was only in charge of Russian prisoners for a short amount of time. The Russians were prisoners of the...

John Poole was born in Mercy, Texas in 1923. The Great Depression represented hard times for Poole. His father had a...

Alexander White described conditions at the Schindler factory as "difficult." Food was scarce, and, initially, rations...

Thomas Eakes had basic training at Ellington Field [Annotator's Note: now Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base] in...

[Annotator's Note: Interview begins in the middle of a story.] When John Caponigro got back to his barracks at Fort...

On 4 May 1945, near the end of the war, Alan Moskin and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 66th Infantry Regiment, 71st...

The first time that Arne Samuelson experienced loss in his unit [Annotator’s Note: the 99th Infantry Battalion was a...

Sherman Vangrov was born in March 1927 in Dayton, Ohio, but moved around the county because his mother was ill. He...

Different people handle combat in different ways. Richard Willett had a cousin who was a deeply religious family man...

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