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On 25 March 1938, the Greek freighter Steve Pisanos got a job aboard steamed to Oran, Algeria, in North Africa. He...

Richard Willett does not recall exactly where they crossed the border into Germany. They had not been told they were...

The worst thing [Annotator's Note: about the war] for Lionel Baxter was that after the war was over, he was a guard at...

They were not really Russian soldiers, but they were of Ukranian descent. Standifer called them Russians. If the...

Elvira Maria Katarina Algermissen Leskovec was born in February 1928 in Hildesheim, Germany. She had one sister who was...

When John Foy's unit [Annotator's Note: Company A, 1st Battalion, 347th Infantry Regiment, 87th Infantry Division] came...

Chester Brewer went by train to Deopham Green, which was near his airbase [Annotator's Note: Royal Air Force Deopham...

Leon Bass's mother always told him he did not need to use violence to solve a problem. His friends were tough guys....

Wayne Pierce returned to England after Normandy. The regiment stayed there until September when the paratroopers...

Kenneth F. Thomas's unit [Annotator's Note: Company C, 322nd Medical Battalion, 97th Infantry Division] was sent to...

Leahr was shipped overseas in early 1944. He had graduated in Class 43-G [Annotator's Note: Class 43-G graduated in...

Gerhard Franzky could quit the Hitler Youth but he was not allowed to quit the civil defense. Soon it was 1942. Many of...

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