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When Eugene Yackel first heard they had dropped the bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan...

Henry Lederer says the crosshair gun sight they used was horse and buggy compared to what they have today. They knew...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Edward Zarger what his worst battle was.] The day he was wounded in the leg, 6...

[Annotator's Note: James Siracuse served in the USAAF as a pilot flying Douglas A-20 Havoc light bombers in the 669th...

Clifford Suthern Hayes was born in February 1926 in Manhattan, New York. His stepfather worked as a manger in a grocery...

Irving Miller joined the Army in November 1943. Prior to that, he had been in the New York National Guard. He trained...

Charles Scheffel got married on 27 March 1942. He cut his college hours down so he could go on a honeymoon. Scheffel...

[Annotator's Note: Coughing can be heard throughout this segment.] Allen Porter was born in Market, Michigan in 1925....

As they got closer to Hammelburg, they were attacked by German Hetzers [Annotator's Note: German light tank destroyer...

William Scully was shipped to Fort McClellan in Alabama for training. He was taught infantry work such as rifles and...

Joseph Komito was born in the small town of Mielec, Poland. In 1939 [Annotator's Note: September 1939], the Germans...

Edgar A. Grabhorn's group [Annotator's Note: 838th Bombardment Squadron, 487th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force]...

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