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Edward G. Willette was in Verviers, Belgium, and wrote home quite often. One of his letters described how, when the...

Kalil did not think he was going to survive after seeing all the Germans in the town. All he remembers from getting hit...

William E. Byrnes was born in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] in January 1926. His family moved around a...

Robert Boeke and his classmates talked about the war in social studies class. He sang in the boys' choir. They started...

Malarkey went to Normandy, France to meet with the family who owned the farm where he had fought on D-Day. The family...

[Annotator's Note: Chester Brewer returned home after his 27th mission in Europe as a tail gunner on a Boeing B-17...

Edward Grant was assigned to his unit [Annotator's Note: 412th Bombardment Squadron, 95th Bombardment Group. 8th Air...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip Irwin Medway looks at photographs, mostly off-camera, and reads statistics from...

George Kays was with the 136th Field Artillery [Annotator’s Note: 136th Field Artillery Regiment, 37th Infantry...

For Bob Miksa [Annotator’s Note: Robert Miksa], D-Day was cold, damp and dark. H-hour was about 0630. Miksa and his...

Henry Burkle went to the ballistic missile command in California, and then he did top secret contract work. He wanted...

Richard Duchossois was born in October of 1921 in Chicago. His whole family lived, and still lives, in Chicago....

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