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Robert Martin was taught to march and thought it was stupid [Annotator's Note: in US Navy basic training]. They went to...

Communications for John W. Towle and his new French host family was difficult. With the help of a French to English...

Paul Hissey flew P-38s [Annotator's Note: Lockheed P-38 Lighting fighter aircraft] during his time in Europe. He...

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

Dora Langsam wanted to be an American after her experiences in the Holocaust [Annotator's Note: also called the Shoah;...

Before Vernon Tweedt was discharged in Germany, his then-girlfriend had written him. A pastor had offered her a job...

Billow recalls his friend Robert "Sketch" Marigg telling him about the incident. Sketch saw everything from a bush on...

[Annotators Note: Robert Walter was a platoon sergeant in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th...

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

[Annotator's Note: John K. Ward jumped into France with the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division...

Jerome "Jerry" Riga was on a mission and saw a tank. As he went down to strafe it, Riga was hit by antiaircraft fire....

Dr. Thomas Fitzpatrick was born in September 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His family lived in a rural area...

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