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Chester David was born in March 1924 in Lacassine, Louisiana. He was the youngest of one brother and two sisters and...

Bernard Smith was very comfortable as an armorer gunner. He and his crew got along very well. They were ecumenical....

Eugene T. Leavy was introduced to combat as the 398th Infantry Regiment, 100th Infantry Division quickly advanced...

Seymour Mermelstein was in Kassel, Germany on 12 April 1945 when President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano...

Leahr and the interviewer talk about fishing.Leahr grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father was a chauffeur and his...

George Sakato had to go and rescue the Lost Battalion [Annotator's Note: elements of the 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry...

Towards the end of the war, Germans were surrendering by the thousands to William F. Bielec and his unit [Annotator's...

William Curtis believes that people should study World War 2 in the future because it is part of history. Curtis did...

John Poole found out after the fact that Marseilles, France, where he landed, was a communist hotbed. The dock workers...

Henry Freedman reported to Fort Devens, Massachusetts after receiving his draft notice. He was then sent to Camp...

On the morning of the 16th [Annotator's Note: 16 December 1944] Lyle Bouck was surprised by shelling. They could hear...

Bernard Smith was fortunate because when he got overseas, the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note: German Air Force] had been...

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