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Erna Louise Deiglmayr was born in Antwerp, Belgium. She had a close family. Her mother was one of many children. She...

Richard O. "Otto" Bertz had never been as cold as he was in combat. He still has trouble with his feet and goes to bed...

Adolph Edward Asher was in training as a soldier when he heard about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

Paul Hissey remembered flying over German towns that had been bombed while he was serving on occupation duty. He...

When Clarence Anderson returned from R and R [Annotator's Note: rest and relaxation or recuperation] he was ordered to...

Erik Johnsen, a Cadet in the US Merchant Marine says that New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 1920s was active with all...

Walter Trauner was born in 1925 in Boonton, New Jersey. His father had a bakery there. In 1929, his father sold the...

Freddie Ohr came running out of the wave and he did not see the boat anymore. He made two or three passes that low....

A few days later, Gerhard Franzky was caught by surprise as the allies launched Operation Market Garden. On 17...

When Francis Neilson got back to the United States, the war with Japan was still raging. He had a ten day furlough [...

Bernard Friedenberg passed through Camp Lucky Strike on his way home after the war. He remembers passing the Statue of...

Eugene Henry Gierka's most memorable experience was his being exposed as an interpreter to a couple hundred Polish...

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