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William V. Cross was born in September 1922 in Memphis, Tennessee. He grew up with one brother and a family that moved...

Walter "Babe" Gantz volunteered for a secret mission made up of two medical officers and 58 enlisted me. They were sent...

Peter Du Pre was born in May 1923. He has three brothers and one sister. He was the oldest boy. His father was in the...

Replacement troops to John Witmeyer's unit always reported to him so he generally learned the names of new recruits. In...

Gordon Higgins' unit [Annotator's Note: 2nd Battalion, 407th Infantry Regiment, 103rd Infantry Division] joined the...

James Nannini went overseas in a large convoy. It was scary to him because he had never been on a boat before. He was...

Arthur Seltzer was a participant in the Battle of the Bulge. The battle began in December 1944. It was cold and...

Walter Gaterman had post traumatic stress disorder or PTSD decades after the war. He met Vietnam veterans who had it...

Irving Miller joined the Army in November 1943. Prior to that, he had been in the New York National Guard. He trained...

Stegmeier was told that he had shrapnel on his lung and that his feet appeared to be frozen. One doctor wanted to...

Vernon Alexander's 103rd Infantry Division had met the 5th Army at the Brenner Pass and was in Austria on V-E Day [...

Baum remembers when they broke through Schweinheim they were moving pretty fast. By that point, the Germans knew they...

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