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Hear our neighbors recall events from WWII, see images that they held on to and are now sharing with us.

We got into Sicily about a week and a half before the invasion.
War was over in 1945, figured I’m going home now.
And they come by strafing us.
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They was good soldiers over there, the Germans. But them SS Troopers...
they censored the letters, everything that was written, you never knew important things
Things were kept very quiet even from the population so you weren’t sure where anyone was.
The Marine Corps is quite a unique organization. There’s no horseplay or foolin’ around.
He took a lot of pictures he probably shouldn’t have been taking.
the Dutchmen were very brave, self-sacrificing, they could've been shot for helping
all four of us were captured at the same time, handcuffed, and taken up by a Gestapo agent
I could have been one of the first ones in the CIA, you know?
We were after New Georgia island because the Japanese were building an airstrip there.
The marines had been there for several months and and malaria was taking a toll.
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