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Gerard Halpern and his fellow soldiers of the 45th Infantry Division spent the six weeks after the fall of Rome doing...

Clarence Herbert Weatherwax was in the town of Bad Ems, Germany. They located some alcohol and he got intoxicated. He...

Frank Bostwick was en route back to the United States when the Germans surrendered on 8 May 1945. His air missions over...

Robert Huber read Mein Kampf in high school. It was his first introduction to Hitler [Annotator's Note: German Dictator...

Harry Snyder was born in August 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was an only child who lived with his mother and...

Robert E. Foster entered the Navy in November 1934. He was drafted [Annotator's Note: into the Army] in 1942. Foster...

Everyone in the outfit had great respect for Gavin [Annotators Note: Major General James "Jumpin' Jim" Gavin,...

Josephine Pescatore prayed when Cardinal Spellman gave a talk to a large group of troops before she went overseas....

Gale Ammerman was wearing a regular combat jacket and trousers, carried a .45 caliber pistol [Annotator's Note: .45...

Jesse Schraub served in the Army as a mortar man in Company A of the 91st Chemical Mortar Battalion and took part in...

John Gibbons does not believe that there was much gloom and doom when they were told during the briefing that the...

Richard Graff's sister, a nurse, started working in a hospital in California after the war. After a weekend together,...

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