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Byron Othello Wilkins was taught what to do if he became a POW but no one figured they would become POWs. They boarded...

At the conclusion of World War 2, there were celebrations, but Thomas W. Gillette did not participate because he had...

Gerald West walked back two miles to the main camp and Edson [Annotator's Note: USMC Colonel, later Major General,...

Bernard Hillenbrand does not recall too much of when he landed on Omaha Beach [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied...

In 1944, in a town called Baupte, France, Carl Beck says there was a man named Henri D. Schmidt, a Belgic [Annotator's...

Oscar Otto Martin remembered that on his first day in combat, they were scheduled to attack at two in the afternoon,...

more missions after D-Day and then returned to the United States. He was in Milwaukie on V-E Day and in Louisiana when...

Leisey recalls having to do sponge ball therapy so he could build up the strength up in his hand. He has problems...

Nobody on Omer Van Huylenbrouck's plane was ever wounded by flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire] as far...

Arthur Albertson was looking forward to going overseas. He wanted to go to Europe, not to the Pacific. He went to...

Robert L. Williams thinks it very important that museums and memorials commemorating World War 2 continue to tell the...

After completing jump school, Manfred Steinfeld was assigned to the G2 section [Annotator's Note: intelligence section...

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