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Each compound had a command group to deal with the Germans. This also helped the Germans by having commanders over the...

George F. Mills was born in Spencer, Tennessee in May 1921. His family moved to Rock Island, Tennessee where his father...

Joseph Dean Reilly and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters, 3rd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment,...

Cecil N. Duck was born in August 1925 in Bay Minnette, Alabama, and when he was six years old, his family moved to...

Freddie Ohr sat down and everybody sat around him to keep him warm. Ohr got up and looked around and realized there was...

Robert Whitcomb went overseas on a converted cruise liner. After arriving in Liverpool he was sent to Chelveston Air...

[Annotator's Note: Gerard Dillon jumped into the Wesel, Germany area 24 March 1945, with the 507th Parachute Infantry...

Dora Langsam was born near Lodz, Poland [Annotator's Note: Łódź, Poland] in January 1925. Her childhood was beautiful...

Barbara Heming's story is similar to all of those Germans who came from the east during the bleak period in the 1940s...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was liberated on 29 April [Annotator's Note: 29 April 1945]. A pitched battle was fought...

James Siracuse worked in the cellar at Western Electric for awhile. The boss never came down so he could horse around a...

Stanley Jack Birnbaum was born in March 1923 in New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York]. He attended Queens...

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