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Robert Murphy served in Company A, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II. He was a pathfinder and had...

Stalag Luft was for airmen only. Luft is the German word for air. There were 8000 or 10000 of them there. There were...

John Geary thought the B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber] was a great plane that could...

Describing the journey on the SS Dorchester, Ben Epstein said it was a terrible trip. But he pointed out that in every...

Roy Joseph Moss kept advancing toward Leon [Annotator's Note: Léon, France] where the Germans were strongly positioned...

If a prisoner was lucky, he got a potato with his nightly ration of soup. Ernest Gross once watched a man going around...

Frank Dolsen [Annotator's Note: with the 349th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] bailed out...

The Hartz Mountains [Annotators Note: also referred to as the Harz Mountains, Germany] contained many Hitler Youth...

When the draft began in 1942, everyone from the ages 17 and a half to 35 years old had to sign up. Roberto "Bob” Ruiz...

After a couple days, Ralph Sykes crossed the river [Annotator's Note: Roer River] on a pontoon boat. His first combat...

Following his fourth year at Wentworth [Annotator’s Note: Wentworth Military Academy and College in Lexington, Missouri...

[Annotator's Note: Bernard Smith flew his final five missions with "bastard" crews or crews made of men who did not...

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