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Trained as a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] bombardier, Dean Whittaker describes...

Despite his excitement at being liberated from German custody, Rothacker Smith knew he was to return to a racist and...

Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld and his fellow prisoners reached Mühlberg [Annotator's Note: Mühlberg, Germany] and Stalag IV-...

[Annotator's Note: Harry Bell served in the Army as a mortar gunner in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 422nd Infantry...

As they traveled through Germany [Annotator's Note: during his time spent as a prisoner of war (POW), Onesi remembers...

Leonard Gaj hit the ground quickly when he jumped [Annotator's Note: on D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy, France...

Joseph “Joe” Grossman was born in 1927 in Syracuse, New York. He had seven siblings, and his father was self-employed...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was liberated on 29 April [Annotator's Note: 29 April 1945]. A pitched battle was fought...

Burton Johnson had over 1,500 Japanese prisoners in the massive POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camp in...

Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld reached Stalag III-A at Frankfurt an der Oder [Annotator's Note: Frankfurt an der Oder,...

Herndon Inge, Junior heard scuttlebutt [Annotator's Note: a period slang term for a rumor] that the Americans were...

Benjamin Hagans was on a PT boat [Annotator’s Note: patrol torpedo boat] that brought MacArthur [Annotator's Note:...

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