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George H. Roxandich [Annotator's Note: wounded and captured by Germans while serving with Company B, 415th Infantry...
After becoming a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war], Gilbert Clift was taken back to the German positions where he...
Winnecken Gerhard was captured by the Americans. He still had a rifle grenade in his pocket after being searched. He...
George F. Mills [Annotator's Note: captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes Counter...
Karl Friedrich "Charley” König [Annotator's Note: or Koenig] said to himself the Americans had no manners or did not...
On 19 March 1945, Linwood S. Inscoe was on a mission [Annotator's Note: with 22nd Fighter Squadron, 36th Fighter Group...
Richard F. Penwell departed California and arrived in Dobodura, New Guinea but soon departed for Leyte [Annotator's...
His most memorable experience of the war was when Otis Gatewood was shot and captured. There was a time when he wasn't...
Clarence Schilperoot feels World War 2 should continue to be studied. Many of his memories are personal. They are the...
[Annotator's Note: Marietta Baham gives the interviewer pages of information.] Marietta Baham was sad for most of the...
Leonard Brooks and his family continued to have bible studies and prayer meetings every day while waiting to find out...
Thomas Michael Holt's Ranger training was arduous [Annotator's Note: the 1st Ranger Battalion]. Darby [Annotator's Note...
John Noack got the emergency radio set up. Noack had a little difficulty getting everything set up. Noack got seasick...
Alexander Jefferson’s plane name was “Bubble Blue Subsoil” [Annotator’s Note: Jefferson became quiet and was lost in...
Fw190s [Annotator's Note: German Focke Wulf 190 interceptor aircraft] attacked the group the day Oscar Johnson was shot...
David Dennis went with his unit to New York where they got on the Queen Mary. Teddy Roosevelt was the commander of the...
Oscar Johnson was taken to Frankfurt after being held in Bonn for a short time. All he gave the enemy was his name,...
When Edward LaPorta was in training all of the guys in the outfit were very good friends. After going through their...
At Kasserine Pass Edward LaPorta was set up at about the middle of the pass. They were on an outpost and there was a...
Edward LaPorta was not able to locate other members of the 1st Armored Division. He was captured by Rommel’s [...
Leonard Spivey was told that the war was over for him and that he would not be fighting again. Spivey gave them name,...
Leonard Spivey lived in a combine, which was a group of six prisoners in one living space. They were allowed to stay...
[Annotator's Note: No mention is made here of the mission being described, however, from later interviews and the...
The target that day [Annotator's Note: 24 April 1944, the day William Fili was shot down] was Ploesti [Annotator's Note...
Olen Grant was living in a hotel in Austin, Texas when he got a call from Jim Armstrong. It was the first time Grant...
Eugene Vaadi went to the Philippines as part of the 581st Air Resupply and Communications Squadron, 13th Air Force,...
On Martin Richard's last mission, the British were pinned down on the beachhead around Caen [Annotator's Note: Caen,...
On 13 September 1944 John Sacks flew a mission to bomb an I.G. Farben refinery manufacturing synthetic fuel. The plant...
Deep penetration raids were the most dangerous, according to Paul Lefever, and he was shot down during an attack on a...
Frank Golemi was flying supplies into Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the...
Norman Bussel had to bail out of his B-17 over Berlin, Germany on 29 April 1944. He was captured and interrogated by a...
Walter Gaterman arrived at Stalag IV-B near Mühlberg, Germany. He had been interrogated three or four times beforehand...
Being as friendly possible, Robert Heller and his crew surrendered. As far as he knew, only one of the crew had died,...
The USS Houston (CA-30)'s last battle, David Flynn said, was the Battle of Sunda Straits. [Annotator's Note: The Battle...
When the Tuol Pocket was closed, Ben Skardon's company [Annotator's Note: Company A, 1st Battalion, 92nd Infantry...
Jack Skaggs and his fellow Marines on Wake Island felt that they would be killed after capture. A World War 1 veteran...

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