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Witaker, Richard "Dick" The Japanese
Richard Witaker distrusted both civilians and soldiers on the Japanese held island of Okinawa. He once had to remove a...
Denzler, Edward The Japanese Enemy
The impression Edward Denzler had of the Japanese soldiers he saw in Burma was that they were mostly young kids. Their...
Marr, John W The Jump into Normandy
John W. Marr and the men of the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment loaded into their transport airplanes on the evening...
Houston, Jack The Knoll
[Annotator's Note: Jack Houston served in the US Marine Corps as a rifleman in 3rd Platoon, Company G, 2nd Battalion,...
Schmitt, Warren The last months of the war
It was not quite dark when Warren Schmitt linked up with the engineers who had stopped him [Annotators Note: Warren...
Weinreich, Frieda The Lodz Ghetto
A couple of months after Lodz [Annotator's Note: Lodz, Ploand] was taken, all the Jews were put in the Lodz Ghetto....
Hughes, Lowell The Long Trip Home
Lowell Hughes thought he would be home by 4 July 1945. When his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company A, 120th Engineer...
Schmitt, Warren The Malmedy Massacre
[Annotators Note: Warren Schmitt was a forward observer in Battery B, 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion.]...
Compton, Bryan The March to Rome
Jumping out [Annotator's Note: breaking out of the Anzio, Italy beachhead] on 4 June 1944, Bryan Compton's division [...
Burke, Murphy The Marshall Islands, Mariana Islands and the Mission After Darkness
The USS Yarnell (DD-541) first met the enemy, according to Murphy Burke, at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands...
Kerner, John The Medic’s Red Cross Badge
John Kerner was assigned close to the front in a battalion aid station [Annotator's Note: 110th Medical Battalion, 35th...
Tweed, Earl The Normandy Invasion
Earl Tweed and the troops preparing for the invasion of France knew the action was coming because they were informed...
Hurley, Wallace The Outpost
Wallace Hurley faced a division of white camouflaged German soldiers who approached the American lines. The Americans...
Bayuk, Rose The Pacific and War's End
Backing up to the time when Rose Bayuk first arrived in London [Annotator's Note: London, England], she relates how the...
Jackson, James The Philippines
James Thomas Jackson [Annotator's Note: arrived in the Philippines after the Japanese surrendered in August 1945,...
Tubach, James The Philippines and War's End
James "Jim" Tubach was assigned to an Army group [Annotator's Note: 96th Infantry Division] out in the hills looking...
Kuwayama, Yeiichi "Kelly" The pressures of being a combat medic
Kelly Kuwayama landed in either May or June 1944 in Italy. They worked their way up the boot of Italy. When they were...
Keller, Luba The Rape of Women Prisoners
Luba Keller says that the Nazis came to the work camps over time, and took people out. Some were killed and some were...
Trindal, Wesley The recon patrol
[Annotators Note: Wesley Trindal served in the US Army as a rifleman in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry...
Garbo, William The Ridge above Ormoc
As William Garbo and the men of G Troop, 2nd Squadron, 112th Cavalry Regiment, moved out along a mountain trail from...
Reese, Lloyd The Run on Ploesti
Lloyd Reese was the bombardier on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator taking part in Operation Tidal Wave over Ploiești,...
Jaber, Anton The Saint-Lô Breakout
Anton Jaber was part of a force of three divisions, 3,000 planes, and 300 artillery units moving into combat. He could...
McLaughlin, Sr., James The Second Schweinfurt Raid
James Kemp McLaughlin could see the German fighters approaching. The Germans liked to attack from the front and when...
Colbert, Hugh The Situation Before the Battle
[Annotator's Note: Hugh Colbert served as a messenger in Company B, 1st Battalion, 422nd Infantry Regiment, 106th...
Colbert, Hugh The Situation Crumbles
Unbeknownst to Hugh Colbert and most of the men in the 422nd Infantry Regiment, the German advance had completely cut...
Aigner, Leslie The Trauma of Auschwitz
Upon arrival his at Auschwitz, Leslie Aigner saw Doctor Mengele [Annotator's Note: Doctor Josef Mengele chose who lived...
Trindal, Wesley The two Germans
Another reason Wesley Trindal crawled into the bunker was to take cover from the German and American shells that...
Cohen, Jack The War Begins for Greece
The war started for Jack Cohen when Mussolini [Annotator's Note: Italian fascist dictator Benito Amilcare Andrea...
Eleser, Carey The War Ends
Carey Eleser turned 21 on 5 August 1945 and went into a bar to get a beer. On 6 August the atomic bomb was dropped and...
Zilliacus, Patrick The War Ends
Patrick Zilliacus corresponded with his family. It was censored twice but he corresponded throughout the war with his...
Tidmore, Roberta The War Ends
Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore, and everybody else, was scared the Nazis were going to take over Europe. When VE-Day...
Roberts, John The War is Over
On 1 April 1945, they were sent back to Rennes, France to reorganize. On 9 June 1945, John M. Roberts was sent to the...
Sutcliffe, Albert The West Loch Disaster
Albert G. Sutcliffe was sent to Pearl Harbor's [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] in preparation for going to the...
Kelley, Archie The West Virginia Torpedoed
Archie Kelley thought much more time was going by than really was [Annotator's Note: onboard the now-torpedoed USS West...
Rubin, Mark Theresienstadt
After being taken to Gestapo headquarters, Mark Rubin and his family were sent to the Sered transient camp [Annotator's...
Dunlavy, Jack Third Fleet Actions
On 16 April [Annotator's Note: 16 April 1945], the Third Fleet was off the coast of Japan and sent planes out to hit...

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