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Different people handle combat in different ways. Richard Willett had a cousin who was a deeply religious family man...

Warren Schmitt was born on 18 March 1921 in Hutchinson, Kansas. He had a younger brother named Gene who also served in...

Asked to recount the occasion when he was taken prisoner, Joe Pigott recalled that it was after they blew the bridge at...

Louis Cardenas was put into the 36th Infantry Division. They learned how to dig foxholes and fire rifles. They would...

Leonard Spivey notes that the Germans managed to get all of the prisoners out before the Russians came. All of the...

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

Asked if any of the Nuremberg defendants showed any remorse, Whitney Harris said that in his opinion, the only one who...

With his unit [Annotator's Note: 511th Engineer Light Ponton Company], Reginald Duncan arrived in Arlon, Belgium and...

Dwain Luce did not have to wait long to go home. When the war was over, each country sent their finest Divisions to...

In June 1940, Mary Frances Dorothy Wood's school decided to evacuate from Kent, United Kingdom to Wales, United Kingdom...

James “Jim” William Niederer was born in January 1921 in Waco, Texas. He grew up with 5 siblings and his mother died...

Francis Dymnicki feels The National WWII Museum is important as a repository of our history. It is the only place to go...

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