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Lorcey J. Sonnier was born in May 1924. During the Great Depression, he did not have shoes. The town did not have roads...

Cecil N. Duck was born in August 1925 in Bay Minnette, Alabama, and when he was six years old, his family moved to...

Robert Swift and his outfit [Annotator's Note: the 371st Medical Battalion, 71st Infantry Division] shipped out of New...

Moosburg [Annotator's Note: Stalag VII, in Moosburg, Germany] was a consolidation of prisoners from all over. When...

Lawrence Angst remembers one close call very well. He was in basic training with another man. They were both first in...

Vernon Breen knew a little about driving a car, but when he was assigned to transport a captain and a radio...

Olen Grant was living in a hotel in Austin, Texas when he got a call from Jim Armstrong. It was the first time Grant...

Schmedemann doesn't exactly remember where the cannon company [Annotator's Note: Cannon Company, 38th Infantry Regiment...

Norman Weber and his cousin heard a different sound to the sirens [Annotator’s Note: air raid sirens sounded near a...

Sol Lazinger received many awards for his military service. While on a patrol, he was crawling in a beet field near the...

John Koenigsberg’s mother escaped to another region in Holland [Annotator’s Note: the Netherlands]. His father worked...

Robert Wolf returned to the United States from the Philippines and went back to school. He graduated in 1949. He...

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