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After World War 2, Donald W. Bertino returned home as a PFC [Annotator's Note: Private First Class] and joined the Army...

Julia L. Myers remembers the winter of 1944 in Belgium. It was cold and miserable. It was snowy and the bombing of...

Adjusting to civilian life was not easy for Arthur Spaulding, but there were so many others in the same situation. They...

After the war, Earl Flanagan worked for the Military Government because of his ability to speak French. Only two months...

Rita Brandes was in the British Zone of Occupation after the war. Most clothing came from the United States. She had a...

On 6 May 1945, Robert Boeke was told to stay in Mörsdorf [Annotator's Note: Mörsdorf, Germany]. They [Annotator's Note...

The 2nd Division took Leipzig, Germany. It was heavily fortified. In Leipzig they found doorways and stairways that led...

Training was very good. Richard O. "Otto" Bertz had been an Eagle Scout [Annotator's Note: highest achievement in the...

Larris Duhon was assigned to the 300th Engineer Combat Battalion and was sent overseas to Europe from Camp Shanks [...

For many years, Gerhard Franzky put the war in the back of his mind. He was more concerned with building a future. He...

Gordon Higgins was born in February 1924 in New Haven, Connecticut, one of two sons who lived with their mother and...

After a year and a half of training, James W. Phillips rode on the Queen Mary ocean liner to Europe with his division [...

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