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"We never had any problem with them. We’d go to their barber shops and get our hair cut. We were invited to their homes for meals."

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"So we couldn’t do anything about it other than watch them go into the sea. And that was a horrible, horrible, horrible experience for all of us."

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"The plane itself went down in what we call a flat corkscrew. Circling round and round and round and round and round...from about 12,000 feet"

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"People, unless they're very stupid or very unintelligent, do feel fear. You live with fear."

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"When I think of my grandchildren at 18 years old, I would, heck, definitely not like to think that they would have to see this type of thing."

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"Early '44, the call came for three Red Cross girls to go to St. Dunstan's, which was the rehabilitation centre for war blind in England, and I was one of the three."

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"I thought we were really done for but I was able to get back up into the clouds and I abandoned my attack. But that was a very very close one."

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"We started, at first, we were not allowed to associate with the German folks but after a bit, they lifted the fraternization bar and we would have dance parties"

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"I was only about nineteen or so and, you know, when you're young, death is so distant to you."

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"By the time I arrived in Bad Oeynhausen these laws were already in place or being put in place and I was assigned to implement and control and manage several of these laws."

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"I was sent out to just check on lines. And this covering of artillery shells of all sizes going over, made for a very eerie and disquieting, but comforting, sound"

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"It was quite traumatic, to change from being up in the air force flying every day to getting up in the morning, and from seeing everybody in a blue uniform, and all of a sudden, you’re into a civilian dress."

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"I participated in some of the now-famous battles – the Battle of Normandy, the Falaise Gap, the Scheldt, the Battle of the Rhineland and the crossing of the Rhine River…"

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"We were a casualty clearing station on D Day. So we had boys back from the battlefield the same day."

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"One shell came in through, we said, that one came in pretty close. So the corporal told the lance corporal to go see where that one landed. So he came back running, he said, “Well, Maisonneuve was his name.” He said, “Maisonneuve will never see it again.” He said, “He got it.”"

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"The English transcript is not available. Please consult the French transcript."

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