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McDermott, James The Great Escape Compound
James McDermott was being held in the British, North, compound at Stalag Luft III in Zagań, Poland. That is where The...
Flannigan, James The Hurtgen Forest and the Distinguished Service Cross
Asked to recall his worst memories of the Hurtgen Forest, James Flannigan replied, "The day I went in, 'til the day I...
Henleben, Edwin The Invasion of Attu
Edwin Henlebin loaded onto a troop ship in San Francisco, California. He was issued Army clothing so that he couldn't...
Fiore, Dominick The Invasion of Normandy
Dominic Fiore [Annotator's Note: with the 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division] arrived overseas, stationed at...
Wells, Kenneth The Japanese Soldier and Okinawans
When he was on the front line, Kenneth Dwight Wells saw people, Japanese soldiers and Okinawan civilians alike, as a...
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...
Kinney, Gabriel The Leeches were Worse than the Japanese
Gabriel Kinney occasionally encountered Burmese civilians. For the most part the natives did not care who they were....
Smith, Jacques The Leyte Campaign
Jacques Brewster Smith says Elmer Fryar [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling] was the company [Annotator's Note:...
Ram, Walter The Long March and Liberation
Walter Ram and the other POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] who could walk were marched out of Stalag XVII as the...
Murphy, Thomas The Maginot Line to Dachau
While moving through the Maginot Line a German soldier that had been bypassed took a shot at Thomas Murphy and hit his...
Ussery, Jake The Mariana Islands and Iwo Jima
Jake Ussery was aboard the Langley [Annotator's Note: USS Langley (CVL-27)] following the American recapture of the...
Sakato, George The Medal of Honor
During the actions that led to George Sakato receiving the Medal of Honor, he wondered what he was doing here and why...
Wayne, William The Men at Iwo Jima
William Wayne says that Iwo Jima, Japan is shaped like a shoe. The part he was on was deep, thick, volcanic ash that...
Duffy, Gowan The Morning of D-Day
Gowan Duffy remembers around five in the morning [Annotator’s Note: on their way to D-Day, the Allied invasion of...
Lewis, Claude The Mountain Division
Claude L. Lewis kissed the ground when he returned to the States [Annotator’s Note: United States]. He had enough...
Reynolds, Harley The night of June 6th and morning of June 7th 1944
Harley Reynolds, through subsequent research, was able to find out what the German half track was doing there. The half...
Hurley, Wallace The Outpost
Wallace Hurley faced a division of white camouflaged German soldiers who approached the American lines. The Americans...
Lopez, Lionel The Philippines
Lionel Lopez went to Leyte Island in the Philippines [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Leyte, 17 October to 26 December...
Grass, Philip The Philippines
Philip Grass remembers that a Japanese captain was killed the first day they were there [Annotator’s Note: referring to...
Darling, William The Point at Peleliu
William Darling [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion,1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was on the...
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...
Labat, Ubert The Push into Germany
When the big push toward Berlin commenced, Ubert Labat says the Americans brought all the big guns up to the line, and...
Trindal, Wesley The recon patrol
[Annotators Note: Wesley Trindal served in the US Army as a rifleman in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry...
Whitaker, Fred The Rhine River
Fred Whitaker remembers the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes Counter...
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...
Jones, Gerry The Role of a Marine Scout
Gerry Jones had joined the Marine Scout and Sniper Company, which was different than the Marine Raiders as he explains...
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...
Marcantel, Bernard The Siegfried Line and the Assault into Germany
At the Siegfried Line [Annotator's Note: a series of defensive fortifications built by Germany in the 1930s], the...
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...
Carawan, Chris The Start of the Battle of the Bulge
Jumping forward to when Chris Carawan was in Belgium, replacing the 2nd Infantry Division's positions weapon-for-weapon...
Murray, Charles The Strain of Combat on Leadership
Charles Murray was with 25 second lieutenants in the back of a truck going across France. He was a first lieutenant by...
Szafran, Daniel The Suez Crisis and Getting Married
The last war for Holocaust Survivor Daniel Szafran was the 1956 war. [Annotator's Note: The Suez Crisis, or Second Arab...
Phillips, Sidney The Troopship to Guadalcanal
Sidney Philips remembers the trip overseas as sitting around the boat chewing fingernails. Life aboard a troopship is...

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