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Ettlinger was born in Karlsruhe in the Southwest corner of Germany in 1926. He was born into an affluent family who had...

Fred Hirsekorn started out as a gunner on an M4 Sherman medium tank. He had made PFC by the end of basic training. He...

Robert S. Rugeley was sent to basic training in Mineral Wells, Texas. He was then sent to Fort Monmouth, New Jersey [...

[Annotators note: Charles Coolidge starts this segment in the middle of conversation as the camera started recording...

A.C. Thomas thought the German soldiers were too young. Most of them were teenagers. He was in Germany when the war...

Joseph Alter lost men in his platoon. He lost two men in the Hurtgen Forest [Annotator's Note: Battle of Hürtgen Forest...

John Singlaub was called to Washington to meet with President Jimmy Carter. He was not sure if he was being disciplined...

Tola Herszenberg was liberated from Lodz [Annotator's Note: Łódź Ghetto or Litzmannstadt Ghetto in Łódź, Poland on 19...

John W. Towle was born in June 1921 in Sequoyah Hills. Towle's family moved to a dairy farm in Bearden when he was...

Antoinette Underwood and the hospital staff [Annotator's Note: of the 129th General Hospital] knew an invasion was...

In Sidney LaPook's next bivouac, German pilots, called Bed Check Charlie by the GIs, buzzed them late at night and...

Melvin Linkous had an intelligent man in his company [Annotator's Note: Cannon Company, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd...

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