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Lester Hull was born in Hartford, Connecticut in April 1920. He remembers the Great Depression well. Hull's father was...

Calvin Elliott decided he wanted to try and be an airplane pilot. He was fascinated by the B-25s [Annotator's Note:...

Richard Graff's sister, a nurse, started working in a hospital in California after the war. After a weekend together,...

Paul Lawrence was at the Harvard [Annotator's Note: Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts] commencement speech...

Harold Berkman and Company F [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 317th Infantry Regiment, 80th Infantry...

The Hurtgen Forest was a real forest. Raymond VanDuzer does not recall there being snow. When they were shelled things...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Chatterton served in the Navy as a radio man aboard the USS LCI(L)-334], a Landing Craft...

Allen Lamm was born in 1924 in Denham Springs, Louisiana. He grew up there and can remember the physical punishment he...

After the Battle of the Ruhr Pocket, Seymour Reitman and his division [Annotator's Note: Reitman was a member of...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if he embraced military life.] Zilliacus liked the Navy very...

Arthur Staymates thought General Patton [Annotator's Note: US Army Lieutenant General George S. Patton] was a great...

Williams Riggs was born in Somerset, Texas in January 1925. He grew up working on a farm and vowed he would never go...

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