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When he was told that he would be trained aboard ship as a gunner, Robert Fitz was "mystified." He arrived at the main...

John L. Cowan became quite a marksman [Annotator's Note: in the Reserve Officers Training Corps or ROTC]. After he went...

Leonard Jindra was born near Prague, Czechoslovakia in June 1921. He had two brothers and an adopted sister. He was...

David Olson left the European Theater as an S3 officer in charge of plans, training and gunnery. Not too many men in...

Elfriede Clausen recalls waiting for the Americans to come to their village and free them from the Russians occupying...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks slowly and pauses several times throughout segment.] After the combat at the...

George W. McCarthy was born in April 1925 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He father worked as a lumberman, but lost his...

Martin Richard was taken to Gross Tychow, Poland [Annotator's Note: Stalag Luft IV, Gross Tychow, Pomerania, now...

[Annotator's Note: This segment begins with the interviewer talking about another interview he recorded with a soldier...

Vernon Alexander fought in the Muehlhausen combat. The fighting was hot and difficult. Climbach was another instance of...

Richard Ford waited about three months for a boat back to the United States. Germans were sinking boats in the Gulf of...

Elmo Bell and the men of Company C, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division repelled...

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