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Elmore Fredrick Ruck was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in February 1922. His father worked as a public service...

For Charles Coolidge, success [Annotators Note: success in combat] continued in Italy. His unit [Annotators Note:...

[Annotator's Note: There is a very loud humming noise throughout this clip.] After he was drafted [Annotator's Note: in...

Norman Ikari believes that it is important that kids learn about World War 2 and American history. This history is long...

All Henry Langrehr knows about Auschwitz [Annotator's Note: Auschwitz I; Oświęcim, Poland]] is what he saw. The people...

Lionel Baxter trained on howitzers. They went through [Annotator's Note: training] in eight weeks because they were...

In all the time Wayne Peer spent overseas performing infiltration missions, the platoon [Annotator's Note: I...

Somewhere before Vernon Breen crossed the Rhine [Annotator's Note: Rhine River] and got to Worms [Annotator's Note:...

Raymond Mason remembers the guys in his battalion were good guys. They were well-trained. They kept seeing Germans. His...

Samuel W. Smith was awakened to fly a mission. He had to get up and get his crew ready. They had their breakfast and...

[Annotator's Note: Conversation between some people off-camera can be heard throughout this clip.] Jack Davis...

Leon Bass was training in Mississippi. Black soldiers were to be given ideas about why we were fighting the war. The...

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