Written Experiences

This compilation of stories is the veterans themselves talking about their experiences during the war. Click the underlined title to download the story for free.

12th Armored Division​

• …a good day's work

Command Sgt. Major James H. Clifford​

• Indescribable Horror

Julien D. Saks​

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17th Armored Infantry Battalion

• Twenty-Three Long Days and Nights

Warren Maue​

• A Prisoner in World War II

Russell Rasmussen​

• Memories of Captain Carl J. Helton

Carl J. Helton

• Herrlisheim Story

    F. George Hatt, Jr​

• Herman Joseph Ernspiker 17th C

Herman J. Ernspiker

• World War II Experiences of Carl J. Lyons

Carl J. Lyons

• Rescues Wounded Fighter Pilot

Edward Waszaki

• Elegy For a Soldier

Luke Zilles

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23rd Tank Battalion

• The Day Pete Vickless Died

Andrew F. Woods​

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43rd Tank Battalion

• Experiences at a Concentration Camp (April 28, 1945)

Newton Wolpert

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44th Tank Battalion

• 44th Tank Battalion "Red" Cartier's Journal

Ray Cartier

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56th Armored Infantry Battalion

• Marvel Rowland B 56, Memoir

Marvel Rowland

• Ed Pierce Collection

Ed Pierce

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66th Armored Infantry Battalion

• History of German Saw-Dust Bread

Charles (Carl) D. Beattie​

• GI never expected to see his old duffel bag again - Hoeweler

Cliff Radel, The Enquirer​

• My Story as a Soldier

Bob Kampling

• Story of Thomas T. Perrett (starting December 7, 1941

Thomas Perrett

• This is 'It', the Real Thing

Ward McGill

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82nd Medical Battalion

• Rice - Recollections Combat Medic

Bernard Rice

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92nd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron

• Trier to the Rhine-Military Monograph

William V. Finn

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119th Armored Engineer Battalion

• WWII Combat Memoirs

      John P. Parkison

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493rd Armored Field Artillery

• Atrocities of Lansburg Concentration Camp

Robert J. Hartwig

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494th Armored Field Artillery

• Ken Bradstreet Papers

  Kenneth Bradstreet

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572nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery

• Strafing and Liberation - Rescued Holocaust Experience

J. Hausner​

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714th Tank Battalion

• A Few Days In France (1944-1945)

George G. Moss​​

• The Military Life of Howard Elwell  Myers

Howard Elwell Myers​

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