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Vernon Tweedt was crossing southern Germany. The mountain streams were almost clogged with rainbow trout because Hitler...

Frederick Freeman did not return home until January [Annotator's Note: of 1946]. His brother had arrived back home a...

Chester Strunk was transported by train from an interrogation center in Budapest to Stalag Luft III at Zagan near...

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

Harold Paul wanted to join the Air Corps [Annotator's Note: the US Army Air Corps, later the Air Forces] as an aerial...

William Splichal was right in the war room. It was full of bright lights. There were maps all over the wall. They had...

Monroe S. Wolyn would not return fire if it was anti-aircraft fire. If it was enemy fighters, however, they would...

Ed Rendelman found that just surviving the war was the best experience he had in the combat. Seeing those wounded...

Herman Yates never fully recovered from his wounds in World War 2. He is still on the Veteran's pension plan. When he...

In the fall of 1944, Charles Kitching [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the 354th Infantry Regiment, 89th Infantry...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks James Albert Kitts what it was like to be in combat for the first time.] It was...

Joseph Komito was born in the small town of Mielec, Poland. In 1939 [Annotator's Note: September 1939], the Germans...

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