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Edward Tipper enlisted in the Army. All paratroopers enlisted. None were drafted. He wanted to join the paratroopers...

Philip Schmidt used the G.I. Bill to get an education. He went to Saint Paul, Minnesota and found tons of G.I.s looking...

Eveline Peardon and her siblings visited the young soldiers every day after D-Day [Annotator’s Note: the 6 June 1944...

Biddle was not allowed to return to combat because he was being put up for the Medal of Honor. He was told that he had...

[Annotator's Note: There is a video break then the clip starts when interviewee is in mid-sentence.] William McCowen...

[Annotator's Note: Leslie V. Freeman arrived in England on 14 July 1944 and was assigned to the Army's 83rd Infantry...

William V. Cross was born in September 1922 in Memphis, Tennessee. He grew up with one brother and a family that moved...

Ruth Switzer recalled living in a two family house. Her family lived in the apartment upstairs and another family lived...

Robert Rupp was surprised by the atomic bomb drops on Japan [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and...

Brigitte Rodgers was born in January 1943 in Berlin, Germany. She and an older brother were the children of an engineer...

William Scully was born in November 1922 in London [Annotator’s Note: London, England]. His family was living in London...

It is tough for Earl Colson to remember things from so long ago. He returned home and was discharged at Fort Dix [...

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