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

Bob Miksa [Annotator’s Note: Robert Miksa] was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in the suburb of Cicero. Right...

Mort Walker was just getting going in college when he got his draft notice. Walker thought the Army was a great...

Howard Genrich was on a stretcher when he was loaded onto a C-47 [Annotator's Note: Douglas C-47 cargo aircraft]...

Basic training was normal for Henry Little. His training for building bridges involved alligators and snakes swimming...

Harry Bell ended up in IX-B [Annotator's Note: Stalag IX-B in Bad Orb, Germany]. In the camp was a man who Bell...

During his service in Europe, Russell Schuman was assigned to Company B, 48th Armored Infantry Battalion, 7th Armored...

Russell Hoff reached Bad Orb and was assigned to a barracks in the camp. When a group of Americans killed a German...

William Pena was born in Laredo, Texas and attended a Catholic middle school and public high school. He was the editor...

John Keema’s preflight training was essentially basic training and consisted of a lot of classroom work, marching, PT [...

Delbert Franklin Hackman [Annotator's Note: a mechanic with Headquarters Battery, 391st Armored Field Artillery...

Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld reached Stalag III-A at Frankfurt an der Oder [Annotator's Note: Frankfurt an der Oder,...

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