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Wallace Jeffery was born on 27 January 1922 in Sioux City, Iowa. He moved many times but by nine years of age, the...

William Leo Spaetgens enlisted in the United States Navy [Annotator's Note: on 22 October 1942]. His parents did not...

For Henry Phillips Sicily was a cake walk. They landed in Palermo from a big transport. The Germans used aircraft...

Chester Strunk was recruited and enlisted [Annotator's Note: in June 1942] but then told to return to college and await...

Lutz Windisch and his fellow prisoners [Annotator's Note: he was taken prisoner by Russian forces near Breslau, Poland...

William Blackwood was born in March 1921 in Lancaster, Ohio. He was an only child, and lived in a small community near...

Warren William "Bill" Allen, Junior's most memorable experience of World War 2 is meeting different people. Many of the...

The Germans had a lot of horsedrawn equipment. Their tanks were good but they were too well engineered. To get a German...

Richard Ford is able to watch World War 2 movies. Most of the movies in his opinion are a bunch of BS. They do things...

Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. bailed out of his B-17 [Annotator's Note: a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber named “...

[Annotator's Note: Wilhelm Gehlen was a boy growing up in Viersen, Germany during World War 2.]. Wilhelm Gehlen hopes...

Robert Huber's first combat action in Holland was at night. It was a 40 man patrol sent out to capture some enemy...

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