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Shirley Guidry and his unit [Annotator's Note: the 1143rd Engineer Combat Group serving in Europe] took continuous...

Arthur Albertson remembers meeting the Russians after crossing a river into Germany. The war was still in full blast....

The concentration camp at Mauthausen, Austria was infested with lice, and Martin Baranek said conditions were worse...

Charles Taylor was assigned to the USS Absecon (AVP-23) as the catapult officer, even though he had no training in this...

Abe Milkis was deployed initially to Reading, England after leaving his training in the United States. It was quite an...

Robert Sweatt was born in May 1922 in Lovington, New Mexico, one of six children of a county commissioner. He came up...

During his free time, Robert "Bob" Rickel slept, went to aircraft classes, or visited relatives in London [Annotator's...

In December 1944, Sam V. Abate got sick and was put in 358th Engineers [Annotator's Note: 358th Engineer General...

Peter Hirschmann was born in December 1924 in Nuremberg, Germany. He was raised there as the son of a patriotic World...

After the war in Europe ended, Jerome Fatora was sent to Czechoslovakia to train for the fighting in Japan. While he...

George W. McCarthy was a senior in high school and with friends when he found out about the Pearl Harbor attack [...

Lloyd Reese was the bombardier on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator taking part in Operation Tidal Wave over Ploiești,...

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