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Wayne Pierce grew up in the small farming community of Polo, Illinois. He was drafted in June 1941 six months before...

Somewhere before Vernon Breen crossed the Rhine [Annotator's Note: Rhine River] and got to Worms [Annotator's Note:...

Skip Muck [Annotator's Note: Sergeant Warren H. "Skip" Muck] and Alex Penkala [Annotator's Note: Private First Class...

After Normandy, Robert G. Frey and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division]...

During Alfred Dietrick's month off the front lines, something happened he has never spoken of. After they went back...

Emory Maurice Ornelles and the 90th Infantry Division was transferred from the 1st Army to the 3rd Army under General...

After basic training, Don Tallon left Virginia for Africa. The journey took 21 days in a convoy. They had rough weather...

Willie D. Knippers did not have trouble to adjusting back to civilian life after he separated from the service. He used...

Philip Grass grew up in Alexandria [Annotator’s Note: Alexandria, Louisiana], but was born near Port Allen, Louisiana....

Walter McNeely was sent overseas to France and fought through the hedgerows [Annotator's Note: man-made earthen walls...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks slowly and pauses several times throughout segment.] Assigned as a gunner in the...

Melvin Dahlberg's first time abroad was in Italy which was very rundown. The local people were begging for food. He...

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