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John Witmeyer boarded ship on 5 June 1944 for transport across the English Channel. Before Witmeyer crossed the channel...

William Albright enlisted in the Army Air Corps because he wanted to fly, even though he had never flown before. He had...

Bernard Hillenbrand and his division [Annotator's Note: Hillenbrand was a rifleman in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 18th...

Gerald Auerbach was born in New York City [Annotator’s Note: New York City, New York] in 1924. Because of the Great...

William Pena tells how at one point they encountered a group of Americans who laid down their weapons as they...

William Cassady was born in June 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His family moved to New Orleans [Annotator’s Note...

In 1944, Guy Stern and his unit were broken into six-man intelligence teams. They were on an Australian fruit boat, the...

Once the war ended, Robert Rupp was in an area of Czechoslovakia for several days. The Germans just poured in. There...

Onesi recalls his time in the prisoner of war (POW) camps. If they were not sergeants, they would have been better off...

[Annotator’s Note: Voices can be heard in the background throughout the segment.] After two days of cancellation due to...

While in Italy, Mort Walker had heard about the holocaust but did not know much about it. It was not until later that...

When he arrived at Berga, Morton Brooks was shocked to find that it wasn't a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war]...

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