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Charles Coolidge left Camp Edwards near Boston to go to New York before going overseas. He was at sea for 13 days then...

It gradually sunk in to Rothacker Smith that he was a prisoner of war as he believed for the first couple of days in...

After basic training, Bruce Estes was shipped to Naples, Italy where he joined a 60mm mortar squad [Annotator's Note:...

Vernon Baker looked at things differently after the war. He used to think of himself as a killer but then he started to...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Radford served in the Army as an infantryman in Company I, 3rd Battalion, 133rd Infantry...

[Annotator's Note: A squeaking door can be heard throughout this segment.] Helias Doundoulakis [Annotator's Note:...

Alexander Jefferson went into Stalag Luft III [Annotator's Note: then in Sagan, Germany; now Żagań, Poland] with about...

William Blanckenburg was alongside a creek and the Germans were on the other side. This was before Blanckenburg got...

William Edwin Howard was drafted in 1942. He was sent to Camp Croft, South Carolina to train as an infantryman. It was...

Enemy fighters would come from all directions at the bombers. William Fili says they would dive fast and then turn away...

When he was initially assigned [Annotator's Note: to the 88th Infantry Division], Harry Baughman was put into Company D...

F.M. Richard Simons' worst memories are of the cold and the fear of falling asleep in his foxhole. They had wire with...

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