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Clinton Gardner and the armed forces with him were so well trained that he does not remember being afraid when they...

Charles Kitching’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was crossing the Rhine River at two o’clock in the morning...

Before he got to Saint-Lo [Annotator's Note: Battle of Saint-Lô, 7 to 19 July 1944; Saint-Lô, France], Frank Forcinella...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was aboard USS LST-502 for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944.] What...

Robert "Bob" Lowry went to Great Lakes [Annotator's Note: Naval Station Great Lakes, North Chicago, Illinois] for boot...

Gus Blass, II wrote a book in 1999. One day his granddaughter asked him what a Dear John letter was, and why they...

[Annotator's Note: Segment begins with Sacks and the interviewer discussing the interviewee referring to his notes...

Monroe S. Wolyn was led down to the shore by the flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire] battery. There...

Charles Scheffel’s run in with Mr. Shaw [Annotators Note: George Bernard Shaw] was not included in his book Crack and...

Gil Gertner served in the 71st Joint Assault Signal Company (JASCO) [Annotator’s Note: specialized units which...

Paluch believes that it is very important that institutions like the World War II Museum preserve the stories of people...

Robert Wolff remembers that there were escape attempts all the time. They had to get permission from the “escape...

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