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Itka Zygmuntowicz lived in Ciechanów, Poland when the Nazis started rationing food. There was a lot of starvation. They...

Thomas Eakes had basic training at Ellington Field [Annotator's Note: now Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base] in...

Billow did not give an interview for the trials in Europe. He has been interviewed several times since the war. He...

Malarkey's group did not have pathfinders to identify the drop zone. Their pathfinders had gone down in the channel [...

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

One day in October 1942, when Martin Baranek was 12 years old and the SS [Annotator's Note: Schutzstaffel; German...

Fred Arthur Balfour was told to find his own way on board [Annotator's Note: after the war ended and arriving at his...

Joseph Alexander was born in November 1922 in Kowal, Poland. He had a good life there until 1939. They belonged to...

Lawrence Angst said that the Hitler Youth [Annotator's Note: youth organization of the Nazi Party] were radical and a...

Bernard Smith was born in July 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. He did not grow up there. They moved to Syracuse, New York...

John Raaen and a portion of the 5th Ranger Battalion were detached and under the command of Sullivan [Annotator’s Note...

Robert Rans recalls that his first mission was to Messina, Sicily and he remembers being scared as he saw the wall of...

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