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John Keema and his group arrived in Framlingham in mid-July around the time of the Hamburg raids. Keema got to go into...

In late April 1944 they [Annotator's Note: Roland Chaisson and the rest of the 1st Infantry Division] were put on...

The first time somebody shoots at you, the bullet pops when it goes past your head. Robert E. Foster remembers that...

Owen Gibb went to boot camp for six weeks in the Canadian Air Force in the snow. Then they went to Saskatchewan [...

Eveline Peardon moved to the United States in an effort to find work. She was 26 and out of work in Paris. She had...

Thomas Cowart was in the hospital in Liege, Belgium when the war ended [Annotator's Note: he had been wounded in combat...

Jesse Schraub served in the Army as a mortarman in Company A of the 91st Chemical Mortar Battalion and took part in...

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

Robert Haffner went to Georgia to meet with a girl, Ruby, who he had met before he went overseas. He proposed to her...

In the prison of war camp [Annotator’s Note: Stalag XVII-B, Krems, Austria], Virgil Faust learned to play the card game...

Martin J. Anschau was seasick 12 of 13 days returning home on the ship. He could not eat anything. Food smelled bad. He...

Paul Arst was born in Memphis, Tennessee in February, 1921, but grew up in Drew, Mississippi. There were not many...

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