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Richard O. "Otto" Bertz was in Czechoslovakia when the war ended. That was not bad duty. They were stuck in a woodland...

When Philip Sciortino and his ship entered Japanese waters, the sea appeared to be completely mined. An invasion of...

Stephen Ananian was born in December 1922 in Manhattan, New York City [Annotator's Note: the Bronx is one of the five...

Morton Brooks was born in Brooklyn, New York in January 1926. He grew up there, with younger twin siblings, the...

John Noack and his crew finally got a plane. They took their time in breaking it in. Finally they received orders to go...

Lewis Thomas Easterling was put on a luxury liner in July 1944 and enjoyed his passage overseas. His ship landed in...

Sicily was an easier operation than Italy. Theodore Finkbeiner and his company [Annotators Note: Company H, 2nd...

In Münster [Annotator's Note: Münster, Germany], Gerard Dillon got called to battalion [Annotator's Note: 2nd Battalion...

Curt Simmons served as a US Navy Armed Guard gunner aboard merchant ships. Even at the start of the war there were...

William Jucksch was born in October 1925 in McAllen, Texas. His parents separated when he was just a toddler, and his...

During Operation Varsity [Annotator's Note: Operation Varsity, 24 March 1945, Wesel, Germany], the glider pilots of one...

Gil Gertner served in the 71st Joint Assault Signal Company (JASCO) [Annotator’s Note: specialized units which...

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