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After his hometown [Annotator's Note: Apeldoorn, Netherlands] was liberated [Annotator's Note: on 17 April 1945],...

Theodore Finkbeiner does not know why his unit was pulled out of its positions. When they moved into their new...

After a few days, Meyer "Mike" Levin's unit [Annotator's Note: Battery A, 489th Armored Field Artillery, 7th Armored...

Lucien Laborde was on staff duty in the war room on the night of 7 May 1945. At about two in the morning they got a TWX...

Terry Shima's older brother had been drafted before the war and served in the 100th Infantry Battalion [Annotator's...

In October 1943, George F. Mills was shipped overseas and stationed in South Wales [Annotator's Note: South Wales,...

Samuel W. Smith was awakened to fly a mission. He had to get up and get his crew ready. They had their breakfast and...

[Annotator's Note: James Siracuse served in the USAAF as a pilot flying Douglas A-20 Havoc light bombers in the 669th...

Oscar H. Savoie was born on in December 1923 in Lockport, Louisiana with one older brother and one younger sister. At...

Philip Schmidt was born in June 1922 in Alton, Iowa. It was a small town with not much entertainment and few friends....

Bob Bartlett [Annotator's Note: assigned to USS Barnett (APA-5)], was up most of the night before the invasion of...

Alan Moskin says that Patton [Annotator's Note: US Army Lieutenant General George S. Patton, Jr.] used to love to march...

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