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Gerald Claassen was born in Buffalo Center, Iowa in December 1920. His father died at the age of 26 when Claassen was...

Hitler had invaded Czechoslovakia and Poland and the Allies declared war in October 1939 [Annotator's Note: Britain and...

Cosmo Uttero returned to Normandy, France for the 70th anniversary of D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on...

Harold Watters [Annotator's Note: with the 355th Engineer General Service Regiment] only ever talked to Germans in...

Edward Nacey flew a lot of missions to bomb bridges, railroad yards, and marshaling yards. Most of his missions were...

Maxwell Nelson was born in October 1921 in Covington County, Alabama and grew up in the town of Andalusia. The youngest...

Robert Engel's ship had to dodge German u-boats [Annotator's Note: German submarine] by zig-zagging [Annotator's Note:...

Schmedemann was born in Junction City, Kansas where he grew up and attended high school. He went to Kansas State...

Zawada said the POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] did not look that bad. He remembers that there were about...

Arthur Seltzer came home after the end of the war. He was discharged and never wanted to talk about his experiences....

[Annotator's Note: There is a sound of a clock ticking in the background]. Chester Sharp was born in March 1925 in...

Robert Nichols Cresswell [Annotator’s Note: a truck driver in the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion] was bivouacked with...

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