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Lloyd Burns was on his ninth mission when his airplane was shot down [Annotator's Note: Burns was a pilot in the 598th...

Baum's combat command was a reserve command and the 1st 1 into the area at the front of the division. They came under a...

Philip Grass remembers the fighting was fierce on Negros [Annotator’s Note: Negros, Philippines]. The Japanese tried to...

David Roderick had to keep the lane open in Cherbourg for Patton and the 3rd Army. He also helped stop Hitler’s counter...

Samuel W. Smith was awakened to fly a mission. He had to get up and get his crew ready. They had their breakfast and...

During the battle in the Parroy Forest in eastern France, John Witmeyer had two Sherman tanks at his disposal to break...

Warren Leo Lodholz was born in Bonne Terre, Missouri in November 1920. He grew up with four older brothers. His father...

A small contingent of Hungarian soldiers from Letenye [Annotator's Note: Letenye, Hungary] took Robert Bueker and kept...

Charles Kitching was born in October 1925 in Sanford, Maine. He had one sister that is 10 years younger than him. Due...

Irvin Kennedy was not affected by the war. He did not have a career when he got back. He went to work on a mail train...

All Henry Langrehr knows about Auschwitz [Annotator's Note: Auschwitz I; Oświęcim, Poland]] is what he saw. The people...

Josephine Pescatore prayed when Cardinal Spellman gave a talk to a large group of troops before she went overseas....

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