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In the summer of 1944, John J. Connelly was captured by Germans after he bailed out of his plane and was transferred to...

When James F. Dorris, Jr. first went into the service, he took tests to see what he was qualified for. He was put into...

Clinton Gardner witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald and noted there were close to 55,000 to 56,000 deaths in the...

President Truman [Annotator's Note: President Harry S. Truman] integrated the military. Norris Bucksell's brother-in-...

In August 1944 Thomas Ballew’s unit [Annotator's Note: the 231st Searchlight Battalion] got orders to go overseas. They...

Thomas Creekmore [Annotator's Note: a radio operator in the 365th Bombardment Squadron, 305th Bombardment Group, 8th...

Andrew George Jameson's mother was born in Greece and had taken him there several times. Going overseas from Fort Meade...

Sydney Levit's most memorable experience of World War 2 were the men that he was serving with and their close...

Maurice Zolkower voyaged on Nieuw Amsterdam [Annotator’s Note: Dutch ship SS Nieuw Amsterdam] to Omaha Beach [Annotator...

After training in Wisconsin, Joseph P. Fulco was shipped overseas. He departed on the RMS Aquitania. The trip was the...

Manfred Steinfeld was a German Jew [Annotator's Note: who emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938], but...

Kalil grew up in Mishawaka, Indiana during the Great Depression. He was one of nine children, six girls and three boys...

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