European Theater of Operations (ETO)

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Lionel Baxter did not have much to celebrate with when the war was over. Baxter was discharged in November 1945 in...
Seymour Mermelstein went to Bluefield Junior College in West Virginia for two years and then Rider College in Trenton,...
Donald Albert Carlson was fortunate to be in the service for two and a half years. He took advantage of the G.I. Bill,...
Edward Nickerson flew home from England to Bangor, Maine. He vaguely remembers coming home. His mother met him. His...
Upon his arrival in the United States, Robert Joseph Blatnik was transferred from a hospital in South Carolina to one...
After they left France, Harry Bell's wife joined him and they toured Switzerland and Germany. They flew into Frankfurt...
In 1999, the Belgians who were with John M. Roberts on his tour gave him a rose to put on the grave [Annotator's Note:...
When John M. Roberts rejoined his unit after escaping capture, he had not had a chance to tell anyone what he had been...
Samuel Jenkins has only been back to Belgium once. It was a very eerie feeling. They saw where their foxholes had been...
Romay Catherine Johnson Davis feels that her contribution to World War 2 was not enough and that she should have worked...
Byron Othello Wilkins made sergeant on 3 December [Annotators Note: 3 December 1944] and met the new captain around...
Louis Cardenas remembers that they were taken from the capture site to Bucharest, Romania, the capital city. They were...
Herman Molen was interrogated by the Germans [Annotator’s Note: Molen was taken prisoner of war after bailing out...
Julian Siebert was taken by his German captors to Stalag XII-A. As far as he could see, there were just American...
Glen Jostad was first held in a German prisoner of war camp [Annotator's Note: Stalag Luft VI in Heydekrug, Germany,...
Mack Fitzgerald was from Georgia and he enlisted in the Army Air Force. Having trained as a B-24 Liberator flight...
Leonard Gaj hit the ground quickly when he jumped [Annotator's Note: on D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy, France...
Z. Anthony Kruszewski was in a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camp. The conditions were horrible. Many people...
Captured after bailing out of his flak damaged B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber], Eben...
Richard Tangradi was marched for 60 days in the winter. He knew he had to escape. They ate raw potatoes and stale bread...
Robert Wolff remembers that there were escape attempts all the time. They had to get permission from the “escape...
Glen Jostad found the food to be very meager and poor in the prisoner of war Stalag near Heydekrug, Germany [Annotator'...
Roy Creek never met any French people until years after the invasion. Chef-du-Pont [Annotator's Note: Chef-du-Pont,...
Donelson Houseman was put in a truck, along with about five others who were also in bad shape, and sent to a town near...
Glen Jostad learned while being a prisoner of the Germans that everything is valuable. He managed to create a trap for...
John J. Connelly was captured by Germans when he bailed out of his plane and was transferred to Stalag Luft IV [...
When transporting prisoners, Paul Rothenheber was put in charge of taking care of them because he spoke German. The...
Food was extremely scarce for Hugh Colbert and his comrades in German prison camp. Morning rations consisted of a half...
For the Rhine crossing, the 17th Airborne Division was supposed to jump before they [Annotator's Note: the 313th...
Josephine Pescatore prayed when Cardinal Spellman gave a talk to a large group of troops before she went overseas....
[Annotator’s Note: The interview begins mid sentence, after the initial story Frank tells the interview begins.] Frank...
William Dabney was born on 24 June 1924 in Altavista, Virginia. Dabney had five sisters and four brothers but ended up...
[Annotator's Note: James Siracuse served in the USAAF as an A-20 pilot in the 669th Bombardment Squadron, 416th...
[Annotator’s Note: Pena begins mid-sentence] William Pena was commissioned as an officer in the army and reported to...
Cosmo Uttero loaded onto a ship and in three days he was in Glasgow, Scotland [Annotator's Note: in November 1943]....
Mack Fitzgerald was a 4th generation Irishman who was born and raised in Fitzgerald, Georgia. His father was a farmer....

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