Experience behind enemy lines

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Another reason Wesley Trindal crawled into the bunker was to take cover from the German and American shells that...
Robert Swift was captured toward the end of the war. They had been advancing rapidly through Germany and were trying to...
John Foy's division [Annotator's Note: Foy was a member of Company A, 1st Battalion, 347th Infantry Regiment, 87th...
After exiting the beach at Normandy, John Raaen and his men followed the hedgerows in case they would be fired upon....
Salvatore Famularo [Annotator's Note: and his fellow Marines in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th...
William Blanckenburg wrote a book called Private Blanckenburg Goes to War. During his combat experience they had a long...
The men of the 506th [Annotator's Note: 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division] were sent to...
Thomas Amico's vessel [Annotator's Note: PT-155, Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 9 (MTBRon 9)] was moving "up the line" all...
Byron Othello Wilkins and other POWs worked in a nearby town called Euskirchen. They unloaded boxcars and one man found...
Paul Pizzolongo was a medic in the medical detachment of Battery B, 991st Field Artillery Battalion, 258th Field...
[Annotators Note: Wesley Trindal joined Company F, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division as an...
Clarence Robert Duff remembered that during World War 2, his ship rode out three typhoons. The last one was in December...
Donald F. Goyette spent time on Iwo Jima [Annotator's note: Iwo Jima, Japan]. When the Marines were preparing to invade...
[Annotators note: Charles Coolidge starts this segment in the middle of conversation as the camera started recording...
When Wesley Trindal joined his unit on the front lines as a replacement he did not see many people who were not also...
It took George Kays’ unit [Annotator’s Note: 136th Field Artillery Regiment, 37th Infantry Division] 48 hours to set up...
After the Raid [Annotator's Note: the liberation of the Los Banos Internment Camp on 23 February 1945; Los Banos, Luzon...
When the war ended, Robert Walker had flown 51 missions, and was moved to Stuttgart, Germany in a C-47 [Annotator's...
When the division [Annotator's Note: 17th Airborne Division] broke up, Robert Eshback was sent to the 101st [Annotator'...
When Sterling Mace experienced a mortar barrage and machine gun fire on Okinawa, he noticed an unoccupied jeep. He took...
On days that Paul Lefever didn't fly, he would watch other squadrons take off, identify planes by their numbers, and...
On 13 February 1943, they took off for a raid on Shortland Harbor [Annotator's Note: Shortland Harbor, Shortland Island...
When he arrived in Paris, France, Robert Sweatt's escorts introduced him to three young men of the French Resistance...
Going east to Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Maidanek, or Belzec, Alexander White said, meant going to the gas chambers...
Henry Langrehr was working in the mine the first day and he was sent work with an old Czech [Annotator's Note:...
Arthur Albertson did not get as far behind the line [Annotator's Note: the German line] as he thought he could. He got...
Salvatore Famularo was at the Amphitheater [Annotator’s Note: a terrain feature on Iwo Jima, Japan] which was a big...
Joseph Goble and the Marines went about strengthening their lines on the edge of the mountains [Annotator's Note: after...
Donald Evans and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 66th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division] got orders to mount up....
Robert Joseph Blatnik and his unit [Annotator's Note: 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division]...
Lionel Lopez went to Leyte Island in the Philippines. He stayed on the beach with equipment. On the second day,...
James Livaudais toured the third floor of the Louisiana Memorial Pavilion of The National WWII Museum with multiple...

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