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When the troops' Christmas packages were arriving in 1944, Gordon Higgins' unit [Annotator's Note: 2nd Battalion, 407th...

William E. Byrnes took a train to Camp Wolters [Annotator's Note: in Mineral Wells, Texas] and it took forever. There...

John Kerner took a German passenger ship overseas to Europe. He shared a stateroom with five other officers, and they...

Charles Acker [Annotator's Note: of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division] shows the...

William V. Cross [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 261st Infantry Regiment, 65th Infantry Division] crossed the...

Vernon Alexander was a history major in college. He ran into a situation about 30 miles outside of Innsbruck, Austria...

Edward G. Willette lived in tents [Annotator's Note: in Cherbourg, France], and the closest he came to combat at the...

Lionel Baxter says they [Annotator's Note: the German Army] had some fast-moving vehicles and had the 88s [Annotator's...

Lynn Compton remembers Doc Roe [Annotators Note: Company E medic Eugene Roe] as the medic who worked on him when he was...

Zawada's first time in combat was in Alsace-Lorraine. In an infantry column, the tanks were always in the lead. At a...

Hans Siverts was born in March 1918 in Marshall, North Dakota and lived on a ranch until he was five. He had six...

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