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Manfred Klepper adjusted easily to American life because he went to school and learned the language. His parents had a...

Gerhard Franzky was a member of the 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg. Franzky was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1925....

Joe Pigott was born in 1925 in Cybur, Pearl River County, Mississippi and grew up during the Great Depression. He said...

Richard Boyd had been taught that fighting the war was his job. He never gave any thought to the fact that the enemy...

When William Goldsborough learned about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on...

En route to their first German prison camp, Rothacker Smith and his fellow prisoners never discussed the possibility of...

Harry Walker Wellford was assigned to the Harrison [Annotator's Note: USS Harrison (DD-573)] as a radar officer. He met...

Thomas Eakes was born in November 1922 in Beaumont [Annotator's Note: Beaumont, Texas]. He had one older brother. His...

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. sailed to many ports in the Japanese islands after the war. Following three months there,...

Richard Tempus Dixon progressed through jobs as a building superintendent, including a time at University of California...

About a day away from Hawaii, while John H. Cole was headed for Eniwetok [Annotator's Note: Enewetak Atoll, Marshall...

The war matured Robert Whitcomb. Before he was drafted he was determined to become a musician. After the war, he used...

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