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Charles Scheffel did not know what to do when people start shooting at him but he realized that he had to do something...

In February 1943, Nicholas Ventura Sr. [Annotator’s Note: with the 351st Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division]...

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

Albert Porche and the 99th Fighter Squadron landed in North Africa. [Annotator's Note: The 99th Fighter Squadron was an...

Jim Stumpfa was fortunate after he lost his wife Grace. He found a place to ballroom dance. He visited with the band....

At the beginning of the war, the ships [Annotator's Note: United States Merchant Marine ships] traveled by themselves...

Fred Topel did not care very much for the Germans during the war, but he felt sorry for some of them. The British...

Lawrence Richard "Red" Gilbert was sent overseas. His passage lasted four days then he landed in Casablanca [Annotator'...

Gowan Duffy remembers that they would refer to one German plane as Bed Check Charlie [Annotator's Note: nickname given...

When Norman Raner got in the landing craft, he was told that the driver had landed on the beach three times, so Raner...

The first prison camp that Robert Tyler Oakes went to was Stalag Luft IV [Annotator's Note: Pomerania, Poland]. The...

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