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Duchossois, Richard Segment 5
When Richard Duchossois and his unit got up into the Bulge [Annotators Note: the Battle of the Bulge] it was very cold...
Rogers, Ernest Segment 5
The 24th [Annotator's Note: 24 December 1941] was the same; no water and no food. They could barely talk. On the...
LaPorta, Edward Segment 5
When Edward LaPorta was in training all of the guys in the outfit were very good friends. After going through their...
Kirk, Mancel Segment 5
The Gothic Line goes all the way across Italy. The area where Mancel Kirk and his Company G, 168th Infantry Regiment...
Paluch, Theodore "Ted" Segment 5
Paluch has pictures of the Malmedy Memorial. He does not think about the massacre that much anymore. He has other...
Currey, Francis S. Segment 5
After going past the site of the Malmedy Massacre, they kept going and their next major battle was in a town called...
Ichikawa, Grant Segment 5
Grant Ichikawa does not feel that he did anything special being a linguist. He had a job to do and he did it. Ichikawa...
Ross, Wilburn Segment 5
Wilburn K. Ross had his molars knocked out in France by shrapnel. His company commander had sent him and about eight of...
Jackson, Donald Segment 5
Jackson describes what he experienced at Dachau.They knew it was there. They were called in to clear the bodies. But...
Tenney, Lester Segment 5
Tenney did not believe the photo he saw of the Japanese soldier in Hollywood star and started laughing at it. The...
Bell, Bryan Segment 5
The scout that noticed the machine gun nests hidden in the changed leaves was able to go back to Bell and relay what he...
Schmedemann, Keith Segment 5
They moved on and Schmedemann ended the war in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia with the Fifth Corps. Pilsen was undamaged so...
De Mers, William Segment 5
When DeMers was wounded [Annotator’s Note: on New Guinea] he was taken by the aid men to the regimental aid station....
Vessey, John "Jack" Segment 5
John Vessey learned a lot from his 34th Infantry Division leaders. His experience in North Africa colored his outlook...
Doi, Michael Segment 5
Michael Doi does not recall hearing about the death of President Roosevelt. Doi made a lot of Caucasian friends on the...
Biddle, Melvin Segment 5
The intelligence was good for the southern France operation. The intelligence officers claimed to know the rank and...
Christie, Robert Segment 5
Robert Christie notes that the armored tank units worked with the armored infantry. One of the residents at Christie's...
Dennis, David Segment 5
[Annotators Note: David Dennis served as a radio operator in Company D, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st...
Diamond, Joseph Segment 5
[Annotators Note: Joseph Diamond served in the army as a combat medic with the 413th Infantry Regiment, 104th Infantry...
McNeil, Esther Segment 5
The patients McNeil treated were good and were grateful for every little thing the nurses did.The nurses would sit and...
Hawk, John Segment 5
After leaving the aid station [Annotator’s Note: near Chambois, France on August 20, 1944] Hawk was looked at by...
Milosevich, Risto Segment 5
The 88's [Annotator's Note: German 88 millimeter artillery] started coming in at them around 5:00am [Annotator's note:...
Compton, Lynn "Buck" Segment 5
The first person Lynn Compton met up with after the jump into Normandy was Winters [Annotators Note: Richard Winters]....
Baum, Abraham "Abe" Segment 5
Baum remembers some of the men in his division. He talks about his feelings towards Creighton Abrams. Abrams was the...
Spencer, David Segment 5
David Paul Spencer was not afraid much. It may be strange to hear. In the infantry they just accepted what was going on...
Scheffel, Charles Segment 5
The French Foreign Legion decided to fight with the Allies. Charles Scheffel stayed in the tunnel in Algiers that night...
Mann, Karl Segment 5
When Mann's unit broke out of the Anzio beachhead they walked in the direction of the Alban Hills.At 1 point they were...
Weinart, John Segment 5
John Weinart could only stay scared for so long. He did his best to maintain his excitement and adrenaline. There was a...
Kanaya, Jimmie Segment 5
Kanaya felt that living during the Depression years and learning to live under those conditions, working and living on...
Cokinos, Michael Segment 5
Michael Cokinos was only in charge of Russian prisoners for a short amount of time. The Russians were prisoners of the...
McClellan, James Segment 5
McClellan did not keep in touch with any of the men he served with after the war. He never attended any reunions. He...
Galloway, Thomas Segment 5
Galloway was able to write back home which was nice. Galloway's parents found out that he was in a POW camp because of...
Corbin, Robert "Bob" Segment 5
The Germans had diverted two divisions to deal with this salient in their rear echelon. They did not know what these...
Hanna, Homer H. Segment 5
The American prisoners were rounded up on Monkey Point [Annotator’s Note: American servicemen captured by the Japanese...
Standifer, Leon Segment 5
One could fire automatically from the hip. The M-1 could get muddy, wet, and whatever else and it would fire. The...
Zager, Raymond Segment 5
One night they [Annotators Note: Raymond Zager and some of his fellow soldiers of the 66th Infantry Regiment, 71st...

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