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James Gaffney was born in 1924 in Texarkana, Texas. His family moved to several places in Texas. By the time he was six...

Roger Bowers describes the camp guards [Annotator's Note: at Stalag IX-B in Bad Orb, Germany] as mostly SS troops [...

James Jeter was drafted in 1944 but did not pass the physical examination at Fort Humbug [Annotator’s Note: in...

Joseph Simpson was born in West Texas near Anson in 1921. He was delivered by a midwife. His father was a sharecropper...

Richard Greer left Guadalcanal on 5 or 6 January 1943 and went to Melbourne. He was very happy to be leaving the island...

Arthur Staymates thought General Patton [Annotator's Note: US Army Lieutenant General George S. Patton] was a great...

Michael J. "Mike" Pohorilla was born in the coal mining town of Kingston, Pennsylvania in January 1924. Pohorilla...

Harold Berkman fought in the Battle of the Bulge. The battle lasted from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. [...

Walter Amoss was interested in Naval aviation but never had much interest in serving in other branches. He passed the...

Constance Negrotto saw a lot during the war that she had never expected to see. She helped the war effort by working...

Josephine Pescatore prayed when Cardinal Spellman gave a talk to a large group of troops before she went overseas....

Max Finesmith did not have time to think after his bomber had been fatally damaged. Everything was happening so fast...

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