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Russell Van Matre enlisted in the US Army in December 1942. For the year between then and Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

David Wolnerman began to speak about his experiences of the Holocaust [Annotator's Note: also called the Shoah; the...

Donald G. Watson was born in 1922 in New London, Connecticut. His father owned one of the first radio stores in the...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Payne about friction between the officers of his 463rd Parachute Field...

Harold Baumgarten and the men he was with engaged about five Germans at a farm house on the bluff. He killed one of the...

Alexander Marsh was born in November 1922, one of eight children, on a farm in Hardee County, Florida. As a young man,...

John Steven Getway [Annotator's Note: in the 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment (Separate)] was shipped out to...

Otto Kirkpatrick was born in October 1921 in Marianna, Arkansas. In the summer of 1943, he graduated from navigation...

Robert Kean slept on the way back home, knowing no one was going to torpedo them. It was easy duty at the end of the...

To Dr. Roscoe Brown, strafing missions were more dangerous than bomber escort missions because they [Annotator's Note:...

Matthew A. Reluga was not capable of going to the Naval Academy [Annotator's Note: United States Naval Academy,...

Henry Langrehr had heard about the paratroopers. When he went to join, he told them that is what he wanted. At that...

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