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McNeil doesn't think that her time in the army changed her life in any way. She was able to see the world.She feels...
President Harry S. Truman was convinced to come to the west coast [Annotator’s Note: to award Hawk with the Medal of...
During the first attack the Germans walked toward Milosevich's position. No tanks were sent at them for fear that they...
Lynn Compton remembers going through Carentan without any resistance. When the bullets started coming the men were...
They were supposed to leave around 4 p.m., but they were delayed because the area around Schweinheim had not been...
David Paul Spencer heard about the end of the war through the paper. Spencer remembers that he had to go through...
Charles Scheffel met up with the 9th Infantry Division near the airport in Algiers. It was the 9th Division's job to...
Mann landed in Southern France early in the morning [Annotator's Note: the morning of 15 August 1944]. He went ashore...
John Weinart notes that the previous story was probably the closest he ever got to being killed. It was not an unusual...
The Preparations for Overseas Movement [Annotator's Note: POM] he doesn't remember a lot of. He remembered having to...
Michael Cokinos had to let the people know that the kids' stomachs were too small to eat certain food at that point....
The war ended on May 8th, 1945. Coincidentally it was Hairston's birthday. It was also Truman's [Annotator’s Note:...
Galloway was walking with his small band that was captured when they came to a hill. A German staff car pulled up and...
That night they ran out of trees [Annotator’s Note: after escaping a German prisoner of war camp and looking for...
The prisoners of war knew that there was a possibility that they would be attacked during the voyage to Japan.When they...
The Germans expected the Americans to retreat and get out of there. The American unit stayed and fought. 1 of the men...
Raymond Zager drove into the compound [Annotator's Note: Gunskirchen Lager Concentration Camp in Austria]. There were...
One of Hannan's most vivid memories from his action during the Battle of the Bulge was the care that their medics gave...
When the guys heard Axis Sally playing over loud speakers they laughed. They knew it was just propaganda. The Germans...
The rest of it [Annotator’s Note: of art found underground by Ettlinger], the 97%, were returned to their German owners...
They had a couple of rainy days in April [Annotator's Note: April 1945] but the rains got heavy after Lazarick left. He...
Dan Baker’s worst combat moment occurred during his first day in battle outside of Strasburg. A German sniper fired at...
Slape and Creger [Annotators Note: Sgt. William Slape and Private John B. Creger] were trying to get back to the...
Vernon Baker continues describing his Medal of Honor actions in Italy in detail including what he was wearing. When he...
When Theodore Finkbeiner landed on Anzio Beach he and the other landing troops were bombed and strafed. Company G [...
Clinton Gardner and the armed forces with him were so well trained that he does not remember being afraid when they...
Zawada recalls the battle at the Shafenburg bridge just before the Hammelburg Raid. His platoon remained in the town of...
When Henry Phillips left the hospital after three weeks of recovering from his third wound he boarded a replacement...
Kalil did not think he was going to survive after seeing all the Germans in the town. All he remembers from getting hit...
Major Brubaker [Annotator's Note: spelling unknown] operated on Lou Brissie. Brissie thought his entire squad had been...
Richard Ford heard about the training incident at Slapton Sands [Annotators Note: Ford is referring to Exercise Tiger,...
Robert Murphy located Gordon Prein and convinced him to come to the Las Vegas 505 reunion [Annotators Note: reunion of...
Baldwin didn't have much to do with Capt. Fritts, but he liked him alright. Fritts knew he was a Captain, knew he was...
[Annotators Note: There is dead air at the beginning of this segment. The segment actually begins at 1:04:45:500.] For...
One afternoon they were taken to a railroad station and put on a train but were not told where they were going. The...
At Kasserine Pass Edward LaPorta was set up at about the middle of the pass. They were on an outpost and there was a...

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