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William Meyer was born in Memphis, Tennessee in July 1926 and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He had two younger brothers....

Robert G. Frey has spoken more to the interviewer about the war than he has ever previously done. He was there and when...

An average escort mission would last for 5 to 6 hours but some lasted 7 hours or more. That was a long time to be in a...

Jesse Schraub was born in Brooklyn, New York [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in New York, New...

Jones Quincy Adams, Jr.'s most memorable experience during World War 2 was his third mission because he was a brand-new...

Robert Bueker was born in July 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. He finished high school in 1942. [Annotator's Note: The...

The artillery in the Hurtgen Forest was tree burst artillery which prevented men from digging foxholes in the cold...

As Earl Flanagan and his unit [Annotator's Note: 71st Infantry Division] marched through Germany, he noticed that there...

Judith Rothenberg [Annotator's Note: a Belgian civilian who was a young child when the war broke out] is interested in...

Charles Fitts, Jr. received orders to report to Camp Barkeley, Texas to join the 12th Armored Division. He was brought...

Walter Trauner went through a line and was told he would be in the Army. He wanted to fly. Basic training was on tank...

Lawrence Angst's first experience with combat was seeing the dead bodies piled up to be registered. They left and then...

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