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Frank B. Stewart. Jr. was a child during World War 2 but recalls the willingness of Americans volunteering their time...
Frank Patti did not want to stay in the Army once the war was over in Europe. He did not want to fight in Japan, and...
John H. Price, Jr. felt elation with the end of the war in Europe. He and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 609th...
Garland Virgil Longhoffer did have contact with civilians. During mopping up [Annotator's Note: cleaning up missions]...
Daniel J. Lennon's father had cancer so he received special permission to see him before he died. In November 1944,...
Roy Joseph Moss spent time in a rehabilitation hospital [Annotator's Note: after being wounded in March 1945]. He was...
When moving from place to place they had to keep alert. During the building of the Remagen bridge, Francis Hurd was...
After returning from his leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time], James W. Metcalf...
Abe Milkis returned to his Company as a bazooka man who was assisted by a loader. [Annotator’s Note: Milkis had...
Sam Goldstein [Annotator's Note: with Company B, 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division]...
It was November [Annotator's Note: November 1944] and everything at Auschwitz was gray, the weather was terrible, and...
From Germany, James Pritchett was flown to, and treated at, a general hospital in Herefordshire, England. After about a...
Edward Tipper arrived at Crile General Hospital in Cleveland after his flight from a hospital in England. [Annotator’s...
Thomas Edward Pugh made it to Washington the day Germany surrendered [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May...
Cleveland Peterson made the trip home aboard a Liberty ship. He had flown to Calcutta first, then rode a British train...
Troy Edwards and his unit [Annotator's Note: Carrier Aircraft Service Unit 14 (CASU-14)] reached Guadalcanal and set up...
Frank Buschmeier got seven letters in one day at Stalag Luft IV. One of the men volunteered to read his letters for him...
Francis Dymnicki boarded a ship in England right after V-E Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945] to...
[Annotator's Note: Bernard Smith flew his final five missions with "bastard" crews or crews made of men who did not...
Joseph P. Fulco returned to New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York], where he entered a hospital before being...
Walter Bala completed 35 missions before he returned home. He had one mission where he thought for sure he was going to...
As the war was ending, Nolan Ruiz's German captors had taken the prisoners and marched them west so that they could...
Romay Catherine Johnson Davis [Annotator's Note: a Private in the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion of the...
Arnol Sellars was in the hospital when President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President...
Angus Lorenzen, his sister and mother left Manila, Philippines aboard the SS John Lykes and were repatriated to San...
Arles J. Doss was north of Dallas [Annotator's Note: Dallas, Texas] when Germany surrendered. When the Germans...
The next action Robert Huber and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 3rd Battalion, 415th Infantry Regiment, 104th...
To Lucien Laborde, the first 20 minutes of the movie Saving Private Ryan accurately depict what they experienced when...
Stanley "Stan" Levy was a cryptographer [Annotator's Note: cryptology is the study of secret codes]. He received...
Hewitt Brian Gomez and his crew [Annotator's Note: 857th Bombardment Squadron, 801st Bombardment Group (Provisional)]...
Benjamin Schleider and the 6th Armored Division took Mühlhausen, Germany with serious, but spotty, resistance. There...
Theodore Finkbeiner does not know why his unit was pulled out of its positions. When they moved into their new...
Finally a jeep showed up with a lieutenant in it who told them [Annotators Note: David Dennis and his fellow POWs] when...
Leonard Spivey was at the airfield for a few days. They were at the airfield on V-E Day. All hell was breaking loose on...
Vernon Baker got out of the army on 28 August 1968, 35 years before the interview. He was 83 years old during this...
During that period, the Russian prisoners got along with the American prisoners. One of them made a cigarette case for...

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