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William Leo Spaetgens was born on a farm in Roberts Cove near Crowley, Louisiana in 1922. He had eight siblings but one...

Carl Koone was in the Army Air Corps for another year after his return to the United States. He spent the winter [...

After being captured, Vincent Pale was sent to Stalag XVII. The prisoners were assigned to bunks in a barracks. At...

Ben Kuroki learned that it did not matter that he had flown 30 missions, or that he had a chest full of ribbons. An...

Robert Wolff remembers that there were escape attempts all the time. They had to get permission from the “escape...

A friend of Henry Langrehr's, Jim McMillen, had been beaten up badly by a German guard with a club. The SS [Annotator's...

Somewhere before Vernon Breen crossed the Rhine [Annotator's Note: Rhine River] and got to Worms [Annotator's Note:...

Monroe S. Wolyn was led down to the shore by the flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire] battery. There...

On Christmas Day [Annotator's Note: 25 December 1944], a German came over with a white flag and asked Jack Davis'...

Norman Weber was told by a counselor that he has PTSD [Annotator's Note: post-traumatic stress disorder; a mental...

Arnold Debrick got separated from his unit in Bastogne, Belgium and hitched a ride on a passing truck. When he got off...

[Annotator’s Note: There is a buzzing in the background throughout this clip. The interviewee is already speaking when...

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