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Wayne Peer anticipated being drafted. The armed forces had few restrictions to defer service. Peer was inducted at Fort...

Seymour Mermelstein attended basic training in Miami Beach, Florida. He was then sent to automotive school. He went to...

Monty Joe Boitnott fought in bad weather and only received support when the skies cleared. The Junkers would be...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewer explains to Noack about an item in The National WWII Museum's collection.] John Noack...

In Brussels, Belgium, Joseph Pilcher was surprised to run into his former typing teacher from Lafayette High School [...

The Jewish prisoners traveled for three days in a boxcar, and when Martin Baranek arrived at Auschwitz, he faced killer...

Gerard Halpern landed at Anzio in April [Annotators Note: April of 1944] and was assigned to his new squad. They were...

Charles Coolidge left Camp Edwards near Boston to go to New York before going overseas. He was at sea for 13 days then...

Robert Swift was captured toward the end of the war. They had been advancing rapidly through Germany and were trying to...

John Poole was born in Mercy, Texas in 1923. The Great Depression represented hard times for Poole. His father had a...

After his time in the Army, John Holton Ford returned to the University of Cincinnati [Annotator’s Note: in Cincinnati...

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