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Alois Kopp enlisted in the Navy in September 1937 despite the fact he could not swim. He learned fast. He volunteered...

Dominick Sgobbo walked 200 miles with Patton's [Annotator's Note: US Army Lieutenant General George S. Patton] forces...

Joseph Hartmann went back to England and was sent to Southampton [Annotator's Note: Southampton, England]. He was put...

Manfred Steinfeld was a German Jew [Annotator's Note: who emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938], but...

Charles R. Brown [Annotator's Note: with Headquarters Company, 66th Armored Infantry Battalion, 12th Armored Division]...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee’s chair makes noise throughout the segment.] After receiving his commission as a second...

Fred Gordon's most memorable experience about World War 2 was being part of the division that captured Remagen Bridge...

Wayne Peer anticipated being drafted. The armed forces had few restrictions to defer service. Peer was inducted at Fort...

In Brussels, Belgium, Joseph Pilcher was surprised to run into his former typing teacher from Lafayette High School [...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Yeagely was part of the Army of Occupation in Europe after the war ended.] They had food and...

Wayne Pierce grew up in the small farming community of Polo, Illinois. He was drafted in June 1941 six months before...

William Leo Spaetgens was changed by World War 2. He hated school with a passion. After making it to the tenth grade,...

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