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Vernon Ollar was born in July 1926 in Moline, Illinois and grew up in nearby Rock Island, Illinois as an only child....

A year after enlisting as a private Robert Christie graduated from OCS [Annotators Note: Officer Candidate School] with...

Johannes Aalders was born in February in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. He grew up with two younger sisters. His father...

Harley Reynolds remembers artillery fire coming in from one of the supporting ships out at sea. The shells came just...

[Annotator's Note: Severin Fayerman will never forget entering the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp...

When his company [Annotator's Note: 198th Signal Photographic Company] went to Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa,...

In all the time Wayne Peer spent overseas performing infiltration missions, the platoon [Annotator's Note: I...

[Annotator's Note: Joseph O'Donnell was a prisoner on the Black March in February 1945.] One officer guard got them...

The attack on the barn took place between Arras and Amiens. When Gerhard Franzky was caught the second time he was sent...

The first dead people John H. Price, Jr. saw were Germans and that had little effect on him. They could hear field...

Donald C. Morrison believes its important to study World War 2. He thinks it is vital to have institutions like The...

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

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