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Thomas Payn was born in June 1925 in Boston, Massachusetts, the only child of his Canadian parents. The family moved to...

A.C. Thomas thought the German soldiers were too young. Most of them were teenagers. He was in Germany when the war...

[Annotator's Note: There is a background humming noise throughout this interview.] Edwin “Pete” Goldberg reached a...

Russell Hoff has vivid memories of his prisoner of war experiences. He has flashbacks that will probably never leave...

Maud Dahme's parents did not want to know what had happened to her during the years she and her sister were gone from...

Once in England, Richard Gibian was given a few hours in a P-47 [Annotator's Note: Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter...

In November 1942, Sam Goldstein was drafted and sent to Fort Dix [Annotator's Note: Fort Dx, New Jersey] for induction...

Oscar Johnson went to Kingman, Arizona for gunnery school and then to Lincoln, Nebraska to assemble the crew. From...

[Annotator's Note: William Nesser was in training aboard a commercial transport vessel when the Japanese attacked Pearl...

Walter Trauner was born in 1925 in Boonton, New Jersey. His father had a bakery there. In 1929, his father sold the...

Jack Madden was transported on the old 40 and 8 train cars to his destination [Annotator's Note: following PT boat...

After infantry training, Herbert Siebert was sent to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey and shipped out of New York on a converted...

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