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John Weinart notes that the previous story was probably the closest he ever got to being killed. It was not an unusual...

Walter Douglas took advantage of the G.I. Bill to go to instrument flying school in Virginia and used it to purchase a...

Carl Platkin remembers they could not do anything about the flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire]. They...

Gerhard Franzky was very proud to be a member of the Waffen SS. He sees the inter-service rivalry to be much the same...

James Melvin Crane was born in Conehatta, Mississippi in Newton County. At 15 pounds, he was the largest baby boy in...

In Europe, they said the Americans were happy-go-lucky all the time and they were. There was a saying, "some people...

Henrietta Harkness [Annotator's Note: an Army nurse with the 24th Evacuation Hospital] was trained in Virginia for a...

William Dabney and the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion flew their balloons from the ships. Dabney was responsible for...

Enrique Cervantes was highly influenced by his uncle who taught him about life outside of poverty. Simultaneously, he...

John Steven Getway [Annotator's Note: a paratrooper with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division...

To Lucien Laborde, the first 20 minutes of the movie Saving Private Ryan accurately depict what they experienced when...

After the Battle of the Bulge, Elmer Knudsen was deployed close to the Rhine River and was billeted in a private...

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