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The Red Cross came in to the prison camp and Dominick Sgobbo was treated for dysentery. His buddies had been taking...
Archie Maltbie found the flying in the Battle of the Bulge to be some of the toughest work of his fighter career....
Arthur Staymates was presented the Bronze Star for actions performed early in his combat. He earned his first Bronze...
Andrew Kiniry reached Hohra and then entered into Buchenwald. The sights in the concentration camp were unbelievable....
William McCool engaged in his first combat near Mersch, Luxembourg. His regiment [Annotator's Note: McCool was a member...
Joseph Pocoroba says you never know how you are going to react in battle despite your training. [Annotator's Note:...
Michael Wilford Boos was born in May 1922 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was one of five children. During the Great...
Bernard Friedenberg fought at Aachen, Germany on the Siegfried Line. He was doing the same thing over and over again...
Guy Stern rarely interrogated civilians during the war. His partner, Kurt Jasen did interrogate some German businessmen...
Van Barfoot recalls difficult times when they landed in Southern France. He was a platoon leader and had been promoted...
Russell Mayeur's son joined the National Guard while he was in high school. His basic training was at Fort Polk after...
Bernard Friedenberg passed through Camp Lucky Strike on his way home after the war. He remembers passing the Statue of...
Major Cohn thought the end of the war was his most memorable experience of World War 2. No one expected it to end so...
Firman Balza lost track of time until mid-afternoon. He heard that his division officer, Mr. Crow, had been killed by...
John Moran and the 87th Infantry Division crossed the Rhine River and attacked Braubach, Germany at night. As dawn...
Herman Prager experienced increasing positions of responsibility as he served on more and more patrols aboard the boat...
John Finn was on the opposite side of the island from Pearl Harbor, at Kaneohe Bay, and he heard terrible explosions,...
Paul J. Frisco served aboard the USS Cushing (DD-797) during the ship's entire wartime cruise. The ship was the fourth...
Louis Frydman felt the Warsaw ghetto uprising was just a matter of choosing how to die. [Annotator's Note: Frydman...