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As a child, Christa Schneider said, living in the middle of the war zone was "terrifying." The roar of the airplanes...

When Richard Duchossois and his unit got up into the Bulge [Annotators Note: the Battle of the Bulge] it was very cold...

Donelson Houseman got a ten day leave and went home. After reporting back, he was assigned to Fort Fisher, North...

When Herbert Stern and his unit were on the way down from the north of Germany, the rubble in Frankfurt, Germany was...

In preparation for the invasion of Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June...

Joseph DeMott worked in the farming fields, dug trenches, and built fences as a prisoner of war [Annotator's Note: in...

A regular day for Rose Bayuk "going over" on the hospital ship [Annotator's Note: USAHS Thistle] consisted of setting...

William McCool saw starved and helpless people at Ohrdruf Concentration Camp. There were ovens for disposal of corpses...

Grace Brown was at her sister's home when she heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

Robert Guitard could tell we were no longer at war when women could buy silk stockings, and everyone could buy butter....

The people from one of the camps [Annotator's Note: he is referring to concentration camps]. They looked like ghosts in...

Jack Pierce had a good job offer on the West Coast. He tried to get discharged there, but they would not do it. He...

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