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Bernard Knese was born in Meppen, Illinois near St. Louis, Missouri in May 1924. He grew up in a farming community....

Cleston Stell saw that Germans had mixed feelings toward to the advancing Americans. The 80th Infantry Division took...

Edgar L. McKay was born on 2 January 1925 in Gulfport [Annotator's Note: Gulfport, Mississippi]. He had four sisters...

A lot of the small towns along Clyde Kenney's march were "butchered," and Germany was "pulverized" during that period...

The Germans were good soldiers, well-trained, had good equipment, and did not want the Americans there. Thomas J....

Itka Zygmuntowicz was born in April 1926 in Ciechanów, Poland. It was a small town. They lived in two different places...

Heywood Mason [Annotator's Note: assigned to a Machine Records Unit] was guarding German prisoners of war at Camp Lee [...

Arles J. Doss has had a good life. He ate several different rations. He enjoyed the C rations [Annotator's Note:...

James Livaudais and his glider infantrymen met up with paratroopers after crossing the Merderet causeway. The...

Perry Kerr was born in Texas in 1925. He grew up during the Depression [Annotator's Note: Great Depression; a global...

In 2015, Joseph Alexander was invited by the German government to help celebrate the 70th anniversary of the liberation...

They crossed into eastern France and had to wade through a river as they headed towards the German lines. It was muddy...

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