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Harold Stanford Cole was born in New York in 1924. He grew up in a poor family. He loved the 1920s and 1930s. They had...

William Kracov did not particularly like basic training, but he felt prepared afterward. He sailed right to Europe on...

Harley Harned’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was the trip over to Europe and the ship having to zig-zag [...

Arthur Albertson enlisted in the Air Force. He thought that was where he was going but five days after he signed up, he...

William Splichal played in the Army band in Alaska for two years. They had many USO shows [Annotator's Note: United...

Clinton Gardner witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald and noted there were close to 55,000 to 56,000 deaths in the...

The 45th [Annotator's Note: 45th Infantry Division] got beat up in some conflict, and several men from the 103rd [...

Henry Heim was 17 years old when he went to work in the mine with his father. He shoveled coal into a buggy. His father...

William Leo Spaetgens had his life changed by the Second World War. If a person could not work for something or pay for...

Martin J. Anschau and his outfit crossed an open field [Annotator’s Note: in Belgium with the 290th Infantry Regiment,...

Vernon Leopold and his outfit [Annotator's Note: I...

William Curtis believes that people should study World War 2 in the future because it is part of history. Curtis did...

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