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McClellan, James Segment 1
James McClellan served in the 755th Field Artillery Battalion, 15th Army.He was born in West Virginia. His father...
Galloway, Thomas Segment 1
Galloway was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1923. Galloway was very fortunate during the Great Depression. His father had a...
Corbin, Robert "Bob" Segment 1
Corbin discusses the Battle of the Bulge, the Hammelburg Raid, and the book The Longest Winter [Annotator's Note: The...
Hanna, Homer H. Segment 1
Hannas family was living in Texas when he joined the Army in July 1938 in Lubbock. He took his basic training at Ft....
Standifer, Leon Segment 1
Standifer was born on April 24th, 1925 in Gulfport, Mississippi. He was walking down the street in Clinton, Mississippi...
Zager, Raymond Segment 1
Raymond Zager was born in December 1924 in Los Angeles, California. His father was out of work for a while but was able...
Ehlers, Walter Segment 1
Ehlers served in Company L and Company C of the 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. He enlisted in October...
Hannan, Philip M. Segment 1
Hannan gives some background about his life in prewar Italy. He explains the attitude of the German youth and of an...
Stegmeier, James L. Segment 1
Stegmeier was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1922. At the time of the interview he is 85 years old. He attended Grandview...
Ettlinger, Harry Segment 1
Ettlinger was born in Karlsruhe in the Southwest corner of Germany in 1926. He was born into an affluent family who had...
Billow, Harold Segment 1
Billow was born in Millersburg, Pennsylvania. Growing up during the depression was rough, they did not have much. His...
Lazarick, Len Segment 1
Lazarick was born in Camden, New Jersey in 1923. In those days Camden was a nice city with many large manufacturing and...
Ettlinger, Harry Segment 10
Ettlinger asked Jacque, a Frenchman, to help him go to Baden Baden to find his grandfather's collection and the man...
Bouck, Lyle Segment 10
Lyle Bouck did not like the taste of the food. The men were marched to a town east of Losheim and put in the basement...
Baker, Vernon Segment 10
Vernon Baker retired in Idaho. One day he got a call from Professor Gibran at Shaw University. He asked what Baker knew...
Finkbeiner, Theodore Segment 10
The river crossing [Annotators Note: the 20 September 1944 crossing of the Waal River in Holland during Operation...
Zawada, Robert Segment 10
They crossed the river at Burgson to continue moving towards the camp [Annotator's Note: during the Hammelburg raid as...
Kalil, Louis Segment 10
Kalil does not know what happened to the P-47 pilot. The airmen were taken to a different camp from the infantry. He...
Brissie, Lou Segment 10
Mr. Mack [Annotator's Note: Cornelius McGillicuddy, Sr., or Connie Mack, manager of the Philadelphia Athletics for its...
Ford, Richard Segment 10
Richard Ford notes that they really got nailed at the Elbe River. They moved up to an area one afternoon and the next...
Murphy, Robert Segment 10
For Robert Murphy, returning to Sainte Mere Eglise and making the annual jumps was for his comrades. The guys he served...
Rogers, Ernest Segment 10
They [Annotator's Note: the Japanese] let some of the Red Cross packages go to pot. They would put them in store house...
Dennis, David Segment 10
They [Annotators Note: David Dennis and his fellow POWs] had been given their parcels [Annotators Note: Red Cross...
Hawk, John Segment 10
Hawk feels that it important that there are museums like The National World War II Museum, so that people remember what...
Compton, Lynn "Buck" Segment 10
Lynn Compton had his orders changed so he could play baseball in Paris. He would look around for facilities for the...
Baum, Abraham "Abe" Segment 10
Baum was sickened by the sight and the situation. He had to regroup his men and come up with a plan to get back to the...
Scheffel, Charles Segment 10
They were attempting to cross a river in order to capture an airfield that was suspected of housing German transport...
Mann, Karl Segment 10
Mann went to the enclosure where the camp prisoners were located. The prisoners were rejoicing about their liberation....
Kanaya, Jimmie Segment 10
Of the 3 guys that went with Kanaya to bring back the wounded, one was a Caucasian from a supporting company. They...
Hairston, Joseph Segment 10
Hairston notes that there was a lot of competition between the artillery batteries [Annotator’s Note: during combat in...
Galloway, Thomas Segment 10
Out of all the men Galloway knew and the men around him, no one was killed on the first day of the Bulge. Galloway met...
Hanna, Homer H. Segment 10
Another of the Japanese pushers [Annotator’s Note: Japanese guards at POW camps in the Philippines] was called Many...
Standifer, Leon Segment 10
Standifer tried to use a credit card on one of his return trips to Germany in 1996 and the man who he was trying to buy...
Ettlinger, Harry Segment 11
The Monuments Men group totaled about 60 men when Ettlinger was a member. They continued to be in existence even after...
Bouck, Lyle Segment 11
Lyle Bouck was not put in any work detail and was in an area containing only officers. He is pretty sure that he hooked...

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