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On the 13 February 1945, Harold Baumgarten took his discharge papers to the Bronx County Courthouse. By 14 February, he...

Robert Gaylord Furrow remembers when he heard about the death of Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt...

Arthur Albertson was born in 1923 in Millville [Annotator's Note: Millville, Pennsylvania]. The children were nice....

Harry C. Quinn, Jr. was born in 1925 near Brookhaven, Mississippi in Lincoln County. He grew up on a farm during the...

Josefine "Piepsi" Joyce went to work outside Vienna, Austria for the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note: German Air Force]....

The local principal got him to come up there and then teachers started asking him to speak to their classes. The...

Leon Hirsch saw his service as a great learning experience. He was given responsibilities greater than any he had...

The Germans that Standifer met were as good as the American soldiers. The Germans may have been better earlier in the...

James A. Griffis was born in Lake Forest, Illinois in October 1924. His father was a general contractor. Lake Forest...

[Annotator's Note: Can hear muffled chatter throughout this segment.] In December 1944, Monroe "Tex" Combs [Annotator'...

Eugene W. Chambers found it easy to readjust to civilian life [Annotator's Note: after serving with the Army Air Forces...

Neil Cox could hear a guy screaming out on the battlefield. They were firing their rifles at the Germans. The young man...

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