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Elsie Marie "Kitty" Rippin was born in Ellinger, Texas in January 1924. She moved around a lot with her family during...

Lucien Laborde was on staff duty in the war room on the night of 7 May 1945. At about two in the morning they got a TWX...

While he was a prisoner in Italy, Paul Carter nearly starved. Before leaving Rome [Annotator's Note: Rome, Italy] his...

Helen Anderson Glass enlisted but could not enter active service until she was investigated by governmental security...

Manfred Klepper heard a knock on the family apartment door at dusk [Annotator's Note: on the evening of 9 November 1938...

Ralph “Bud” Ginrich crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the Queen Mary. He had completed basic training just fine. Reaching...

Joseph Alter says it is hard to describe the humiliation and tension he went through [Annotator's Note: in officer...

Judith Altmann recounts her stay at Gelsenkirchen, where the prisoners lived in tents. The earliest arrivals claimed...

Ralph Hopkins and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Louisville (CA-28)] continued along the Chinese coast to accept...

Francis Bucher says the closest he came to death was when he flew with a drunk commander. He was in the hangar ready...

Late in the war, Otis Gatewood said, there was a lot of propaganda circulating on the front lines. Hitler [Annotator's...

George H. Roxandich [Annotator's Note: a German prisoner of war] heard news about how the war was going, and that...

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