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They were supposed to leave around 4 p.m., but they were delayed because the area around Schweinheim had not been...

The next morning Alex Vraciu and the other guerillas headed north up the national highway. They took a bugler and...

Hewitt Brian Gomez returned home mid July 1945 for leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of...

Vernon Tweedt was crossing southern Germany. The mountain streams were almost clogged with rainbow trout because Hitler...

When Wallace Yip, Sr. came into New York Harbor [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] there were fireworks. He went to...

For John Witmeyer, every day in combat brought a new story, and Witmeyer served over 200 days on the front lines as a...

[Annotator's Note: Bud Loring was badly burned after being shot down over France. Locals had taken him into a house to...

James “Jim” William Niederer and his unit [Annotator’s Note: 74th Signal Company, 36th Signal Battalion] were sent from...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer went to Mobile, Alabama to board his assigned ship - the Landing Ship, Tank USS LST-502...

Morris Eugene Day was a happy-go-lucky boy before the war. When he returned, he found that life was the same, but it...

Frank William Buschmeier returned to the United States after being a prisoner of war in Europe for nine months. He was...

Itka Zygmuntowicz learned to appreciate life in Auschwitz because she could lose her life at any second. Even among the...

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