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Food was extremely scarce for Hugh Colbert and his comrades in German prison camp. Morning rations consisted of a half...

Clarence Gomberg served as a medic on Hospital Train 5, also referred to as the 78th Hospital Train. The first time he...

In late April [Annotator's Note: April 1944], they [Annotator's Note: Harold Baumgarten and the rest of the 29th...

Chester J. Butcher [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the 357th Fighter Squadron, 355th Fighter Group, 8th Air...

Samuel Jenkins recalls being in Hünningen for about a month before moving to Lanzerath, Belgium. Bouck [Annotator's...

Lieutenant John Marr had encounters with other American officers and commanders in the field early on in the Normandy...

Vernon Breen was born in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] in March 1925. He grew up in River Forest,...

Robert Shoens knew that the planes coming towards him were not the much hoped for escort. In the briefing room after...

Vernon Alexander fought in the Muehlhausen combat. The fighting was hot and difficult. Climbach was another instance of...

Aubrey Bradley had always wanted to fly, but had never been in an airplane before he entered the Army Air Corps. His...

Lawrence Angst said that the Hitler Youth [Annotator's Note: youth organization of the Nazi Party] were radical and a...

Replacement pilots were in high demand in Europe so Joseph Pilcher was sent to Rennes, France for assignment to a...

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