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Vernon Ollar was born in July 1926 in Moline, Illinois and grew up in nearby Rock Island, Illinois as an only child....

When Wesley Trindal joined his unit on the front lines as a replacement he did not see many people who were not also...

Coming up in America, Fred Manesse said he didn't know much about the Holocaust, or that he was a victim of the war....

Edgar L. McKay was born on 2 January 1925 in Gulfport [Annotator's Note: Gulfport, Mississippi]. He had four sisters...

Joseph Diamond was under mortar attack when he was wounded. A mortar shell exploded about 20 yards away and he felt a...

Heywood Mason [Annotator's Note: assigned to a Machine Records Unit] was guarding German prisoners of war at Camp Lee [...

On 8 September 1942, Irving Baum entered the service and was sent to Camp Upton in Long Island, New York. Three days...

Lewis Thomas Easterling and a few other prisoners made their way to Stuttgart [Annotator's Notes: Stuttgart, Germany]...

Anthony Bianconi was born in September 1920 in Youngstown, Ohio. When he was quite young, his family moved to Mount...

Delbert Franklin Hackman was born on a farm near Havana, Illinois in September 1919. He grew up on a farm and worked...

The exact date that Irving Baum got to England [Annotator's Note: as a bombardier with the 407th Bombardment Squadron,...

The war changed Lewis Thomas Easterling's life tremendously because he had a difficult time finding a job. He got...

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