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The hardest part of boot camp was being told what to do. Charles R. Smith was 18 years old when he went in. He had to...

There was cholera, dysentery and skin illnesses [Annotator's Note: inside the Auschwitz concentration camp]. Eva...

[Annotator's Note: Erna Deiglmayr worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, UNRRA, in...

Alex Carter Sr. went to Southern France. They used 50-cycle electricity. Carter met a girl that spoke perfect English....

Dr. Roscoe Brown feels that Washington D.C. was an ambivalent city when it came to race. When they got to Virginia they...

Russell Hoff and his regiment [Annotator's Note: 422nd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division] surrendered during...

Herbert W. Ridyard arrived at battalion headquarters prior to the advance on Sinz, Germany and was sent to find a...

Winfield Zerphey was reunited with his family in Pennsylvania following his separation from the Navy. He had a brief...

Clayton Kelly Gross recalled the date he shot the jet down was in April of 1945. The last month of the war they could...

[Annotator’s Note: A washing machine running in the background is audible throughout this segment. Interviewee has...

Vernon Leo Tyler was a cannoneer on gun crews [Annotator's Note: in the 100th Infantry Division]. Gun crew duties...

Joseph Alexander and some friends lived in a DP [Annotator's Note: displaced persons] camp in Munich [Annotator's Note...

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