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Lester Shapiro left the United States from California. Ninety percent of the men got seasick on the boat. When he left...

As a child, Christa Schneider said, living in the middle of the war zone was "terrifying." The roar of the airplanes...

Earl Tweed had heard from Lieutenant Al Ungerlighter [Annotator’s Note: unsure of spelling] about concentration camps....

Lauren Swinney picked up words during the war like ersatz which meant a substitute for something. She recalls the pin-...

Joel Urice was assigned to an apartment with another 100th Bombardment Group member in Germany. He had enough points to...

[Annotator's Note: This clip begins with Samuel Ukrop mid-sentence, expressing his opinion on women in combat.] While...

James W. Metcalf’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was flying in combat and the chance of not making it back....

Philip Sciortino was sent to work at a refrigeration unit in Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Luzon, Philippines] when...

Janice Evenson was shown how to do her job. [Annotator’s Note: Evenson worked at a munitions plant]. She looked at a...

John S. Johnson thought World War 2 brought Americans together. It was pure good against pure evil. Unit 731 was a...

Jean "Marian" Alva Yancey Landry has nearly always been known as Marian Y. Landry with the Y representing her maiden...

Frieda Weinreich woke up after the train stopped. They had reached the Auschwitz concentration camp [Annotator's Note:...

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