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Herbert W. Ridyard arrived at battalion headquarters prior to the advance on Sinz, Germany and was sent to find a...

M. Edward Melton knew he was going to be drafted. If he volunteered, he would have a better chance to go into the Army...

Dr. Thomas Fitzpatrick was born in September 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His family lived in a rural area...

Robert Kelso crossed into Germany through the Siegfried Line and headed toward Salzburg. His unit was in Salzburg when...

In December 1944, Arthur Levine [Annotator's Note: with the 30th Infantry Division] received orders to head to Stoumont...

After the war, Jack Buckner used the G.I. Bill to go to school. His first child was born, and he was having a tough...

Stanley Jack Birnbaum fought the war that was considered a "popular war" because it was necessary. He was a tall,...

Jerry LaMura remembers hitting the beaches in Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy,...

W. P. “Bill” Allen was a Navy medic assigned to the USS LST-523 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank]. The LST had two...

For Milton Moxon and the 94th Infantry Division, weather and terrain conditions were horrible on the front. Some men...

Alex Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group was...

Bernard Ellenberg's [Annotator's Note: assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division as a typist for the Stars and Stripes,...

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