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John Angier was taken to Stalag Luft III-A [Annotator's Note: in Sagan, Poland] after being captured near Cologne,...

John Singlaub was nervous about parachuting into France, but, even so, his team was not ineffectual. Prior to the jump...

Onesi remembers the first prisoner of war (POW) camp he was in. It was an older camp that the Germans added barracks to...

Robert Bueker and his crew [Annotator's Note: in the 454th Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force] had a lot of secondary...

Lutz Windisch and his fellow prisoners [Annotator's Note: he was taken prisoner by Russian forces near Breslau, Poland...

John Witmeyer harbored an intense anger toward German soldiers. He punched German prisoners in the face, ran bayonets...

[Annotator's Note: Joseph Lesniewski served in the Army as a paratrooper in Company E, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute...

William White Brainard [Annotator's Note: who served as a radioman on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber in the...

Paul Bosworth was sent to Flagstaff, Arizona for training. He started shooting up all of the beautiful cactuses there....

On 2 January 1945, Ettlinger was on a converted ship transport the Ile de France with 3,000 other men, and on 15...

Bernard Smith was born in July 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. He did not grow up there. They moved to Syracuse, New York...

Martin Baranek stopped in Modena, Italy, where he slept on the floor in a former military academy building operated by...

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