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Itka Zygmuntowicz was in Auschwitz and had to work outside. She got lucky and started working in a place where the...

Until he went into the Navy, Thomas Long had never been away from home. Traveling by coal-fired trains was...

George Hardy does not remember when he heard that the war was over. They knew it was close because they were running...

Walter Bowsher was made mellow by World War 2. While he was a brig warden after the war, he found that he had empathy...

[Annotator's Note: William Albright was a prisoner of war in Stalag XVII-B in Krems an Der Donau, Austria.] They...

By Christmas of 1943, Richard Notebaert was home. His new baby was four months old, and his little family spent two...

Lincoln Piazzo was born in December 1918 in Reno, Nevada. His father was an immigrant, working in the transportation of...

Fighting in the Leyte Valley area lasted for two brutal months, and John Smith related the tale of the event that...

Jack Rolfson born in September 1921 in Omaha, Nebraska. He grew up in the city, went to school, and would ride his bike...

[Annotator's Notes: There is some chit chat between the interviewer and interviewee before the interview begins.]...

Robert Tyler Oakes was a radio operator [Annotator's Note: on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber in the 340th...

The first time Robert Doolan ever flew was in a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] and...

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