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When the war ended, Rose Bayuk says she had done her job, and was ready "to get out of there." While it lasted, it was...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Roswell Weil about the weeks leading up to the D-Day invasion of Normandy,...

Kenneth Beckman discusses the comparatively impersonal nature of combat losses in the air versus those faced by the...

Marvin H. Gohlke was out of his foxhole about an hour before nightfall. He heard the Germans were firing mortars at...

In the prison of war camp [Annotator’s Note: Stalag XVII-B, Krems, Austria], Virgil Faust learned to play the card game...

Cecil K. Bell was sent to Fort Sill [Annotator's Note: in Lawton, Oklahoma] for his basic training and then to Camp...

William Pena remembers how nervous his truck driver was when they left. He ate a big breakfast with his men at the...

Richard Graff was born in August 1924 on a farm outside of Popejoy, Iowa. His parents were German immigrants born in...

Roswell Weil was on Omaha Beach [Annotator's Note: Omaha Beach, Normandy, France] bringing in supplies. His depot [...

Kenneth Beckman was sent back to the United States in October 1945. He describes his life as moving from one base to...

Marvin H. Gohlke was in the States [Annotator’s Note: United States] on convalescent furlough [Annotator's Note: an...

Eugene Vaadi was born 1 July 1921 Watertown, New York. He spent his life there until entering the military. His father...

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