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Byron Othello Wilkins was taught what to do if he became a POW but no one figured they would become POWs. They boarded...

John Foy wanted to mention something about the quartermasters. They were mostly black units, relegated to unloading...

Paul Bosworth was in Moosburg [Annotator's Note: Stalag VII-A, Moosburg, Germany] until he was liberated. The camp was...

Norman Johnson was on a 45 day leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] and by the...

Wilford E. Hastings was sent overseas with an artillery unit [Annotator's Note: 284th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion...

The Red Cross members in London tried to talk Holly Reynolds out of getting married overseas but there was a group of...

The first rounds of artillery fire are often shot way over where you think the troops are and then you fire back to...

After landing at Le Havre [Annotator’s Note: Le Havre, France], Theodore R. Lee was shipped to an airstrip to be flown...

There was excitement at Constance Cresswell's officers' club when Glenn Miller [Annotator's Note: US Army Air Forces...

Lyle Bouck was not put in any work detail and was in an area containing only officers. He is pretty sure that he hooked...

Chester Brewer was sent to Las Vegas, Nevada and fired every gun from BB guns [Annotator's Note: air gun that fires...

[Annotator’s Note: Dishes clattering and other noises are audible in the background throughout the segment.] Joseph...

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