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If a prisoner was lucky, he got a potato with his nightly ration of soup. Ernest Gross once watched a man going around...

Heywood Mason crossed the Atlantic to Europe in a big convoy. They were not hassled by submarines and torpedoes as the...

John Weinart notes that three months after he got to Europe there were only ten of them left. Many were killed, injured...

Vernon Leo Tyler was a cannoneer on gun crews [Annotator's Note: in the 100th Infantry Division]. Gun crew duties...

After spending one day in Paris, France, Hugh Colbert boarded a train for Le Havre, France in Normandy. Upon arriving...

Enrique Cervantes was highly influenced by his uncle who taught him about life outside of poverty. Simultaneously, he...

Philip Whitman's 33rd mission was flown on 13 February 1945 over an oil refinery in Vienna, Austria. It was 53 degrees...

After training, Robert Whelan and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company A, 59th Armored Infantry Battalion, 13th...

Sol Lazinger was born in Harlem, New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York]. His family moved to New Jersey...

Harold Beal is glad he served and would do it again. Somebody must take care of the country. When he talks to children...

James Livaudais remembers some of the men in his company who were not exactly the best soldiers. One was named James...

James E. Haynes Sr. remembers before overseas deployment being in a PX [Annotator's Note: post exchange] in...

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