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Henry Burkle was born in West Monroe, Kansas in September 1921. West Monroe was a coal mining town of immigrants. His...

Paul Rothenheber was excited to be back home. He smoked alot of cigarettes at the time. When he would go home, he gave...

Earl Colson landed in Le Havre, France [Annotator's Note: with the 86th Infantry Division]. They trained there as they...

Vernon Tweedt was sent back to Naples [Annotator's Note: Naples, Italy, after Rome, Italy was liberated June 1944]....

Seymour Mermelstein attended basic training in Miami Beach, Florida. He was then sent to automotive school. He went to...

Jack Appel served in the message center [Annotator's Note: Company B, 17th Signal Operation Battalion, 1st Army]...

Tom Quigley remembers how one night before they blew the pillboxes, he and some other men were watching what they...

One of the more onerous jobs for Irving Baum [Annotator's Note: as a prisoner of war at Stalag Luft III in Sagan,...

[Annotator’s Note: Birds chirping in the background is audible throughout this segment.] Edwin B. Cottrell and his unit...

Charles Acker was in Bastogne [Annotator's Note: Bastogne, Belgium with the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee’s chair makes noise throughout the segment.] After being accepted into the Army Air...

Paul Hilton Madden Jr. was assigned to Company A, 1st Battalion, 379th Infantry Regiment, 95th Infantry Division as a...

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