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Carl Platkin usually went to London [Annotator’s Note: London, England] alone because he had a couple of girlfriends...

Robert Max believes the German sergeant truly thought he was sending Max to a camp where the Geneva Convention was...

William Kracov did not particularly like basic training, but he felt prepared afterward. He sailed right to Europe on...

There was a lot of "oohs and ahhs" at the mission briefing [Annotator's Note: for Victor Fienup's 17 August 1943...

J.M. "Jimmy" Fried, Jr. was born in December 1919 and grew up in Vicksburg, Mississippi. He had one older brother and...

William "Bill" Parker arrived in southern England where he and other soldiers began preparing for a land invasion....

John Steven Getway [Annotator's Note: a paratrooper with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division...

Russell Van Matre [Annotator's Note: who had served in the 2nd Infantry Division in Europe, discharged in October 1945...

[Annotator’s Note: There is a person off screen that relays the interviewer’s questions to the interviewee throughout...

Christopher Blake [Annotator's Note: a novelist and playwright who served with the 6th Tank Destroyer Group in Europe]...

John Raaen dated a nurse at the General Hospital at Cherbourg. They enjoyed dancing and drinking champagne when they...

Bastogne was very cold. There, Edward Shames' platoon mostly executed patrolling actions. Shames relates that his...

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