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[Annotators Note: Robert Walter was a platoon sergeant in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th...
Arthur Staymates thought General Patton [Annotator's Note: US Army Lieutenant General George S. Patton] was a great...
After his Christmas day [Annotator's Note: 25 December 1944] fight, James Jones went on to Bastogne [Annotator's Note:...
James Weller and his outfit [Annotator’s Note: the 62nd Armored Field Artillery battalion] passed through Aachen and...
Richard Scholl was in some of the dirtiest fighting in the Philippines [Annotator's Note: Invasion of Lingayen Gulf,...
Roy H. Matsumoto was almost killed at the Myitkyina [Annotator's Note: Myitkyina, Burma; now Myitkyina, Myanmar]...
Donelson Houseman was confident in his training. What worried him was that he did not know where he was. He was taken...
Alvin von Frisch departed Hawaii [Annotator's Note: as a member of Company C, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment,...
Harold Ronson went to Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, which later became famous for the atomic bomb testing [Annotator's...
Delbert Franklin Hackman [Annotator's Note: a mechanic with Headquarters Battery, 391st Armored Field Artillery...
Gowan Duffy remembers that in between battles, his unit [Annotator’s Note: the 141st Field Artillery Battalion] would...
Stanley James Thurston was not provided basic training. After enlistment, he was sent to a pigeon outfit [Annotator's...
James Stewart Rosenbaum worked with two Navajo Code Talkers [Annotator's Note: also called Diné code talkers, one group...
Backtracking to the time when he was outside of Valmontone, Italy, Robert Boyer recounted an incident when they [...
Walter Bowsher was at Pusan and then Inchon during the Korean War. He was told to report to a warrant officer for duty...
James Cockrell [Annotator's Note: with the 10th Engineer Combat Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division] landed in Anzio [...
To Harry Quinn, combat was the closest thing to Hell that a person could experience. Sleep was disrupted at night by...
Jack Carver fought face to face with the Germans during the war. They could see each other's faces. It was obvious the...
Monty Joe Boitnott rested after Sened Station. The groups that were supposed to move toward the port did not make it...
[Annotator's Note: Gerhard Franzky served in the Waffen SS as a communications officer in Headquarters, 22nd Regiment,...
For Rosette Goldstein, life on the farm continued until one day men with guns arrived. The Martin family hid Goldstein...
On Vernon Schmidt's tenth day in combat [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 358th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry...
In Harold DeForest's platoon there were two squads of machine guns and three squads of mortars. There were about 12 men...
Richard Boyd had been taught that fighting the war was his job. He never gave any thought to the fact that the enemy...
Donald Evans and his unit [Annotator's Note: 66th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division] were doing some...
[Annotator's Note: There is audio feedback noise throughout this clip.] The Ledo Road [Annotator's Note: overland...
Roy Joseph Moss kept advancing toward Leon [Annotator's Note: Léon, France] where the Germans were strongly positioned...
Clarence Derrington entered France [Annotator's Note: with the 310th Infantry Regiment, 78th Infantry Division on 22...
Seymour Reitman was near Aachen, Germany, which was the first German city taken by the Americans. From there, he...
Howard T. Maki and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company D, 1st Battalion, 339th Infantry Regiment, 85th Infantry...
Harley Reynolds was one of the first people under fire during the invasion of North Africa. Reynolds saw fighting on...
At one time in North Africa there was a big tank battle going on. Carl Peterson was up in the mountains and could see...
Harley Reynolds notes that a few of the wounded men were dragging behind. They made it to the trench area. They had men...
Cosmo Uttero was in Normandy [Annotator's Note: Normandy, France] a few weeks ago [Annotator's Note: at the time of...
Earl Tweed had to revamp his plans after getting off the beach and reaching high ground [Annotator's Note: Tweed had...
Henry Langrehr was at the La Fiere bridge [Annotator's Note: La Fiere, France] when a German tank came down the...

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