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Staff Sgt. Jake McNiece

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In this account, Jake talks about living in a freezing cold stockade, how he taunted one of the captains, and why he thought being locked up was fun. (1:50)

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Assigned to blow up two bridges in Normandy, Jake describes why he got this misssion. Then, he recalls being hit by flak, jumping from his plane, and what happened when he hit the ground. (4:05)

Stan Hodsdon

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Air Corps Cadet Stan Hodsdon signed up for flight training but before it was completed, manpower needs in the European Theater caused the entire class of pilots to switch to other crew positions and ship out. (6:15)

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After a miserable Atlantic crossing with sick troops and British rice, Stan Hodsdon settled into a routine of rising at 0400 to fuel up B-17s for the day’s bombing missions. (4:15)

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First, they told Stan Hodsdon that his broken hand wasn’t broken. Then, they put a huge cast on it, which kept the B-17 ground crew member from doing his job. Then, they told him that he was in the infantry. (6:48)

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When Stan Hodsdon was reassigned to the infantry and put on the march in the push after Normandy, he never even knew what his unit was, his pay was messed up, and he went through the worst winter on record with no winter gear. Part 1 of 2. (7:47)

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Infantry soldier Stan Hodsdon continued moving through France, and he continued to have no idea what unit he was in because of the constant reassignment. He does remember the tree bursts, the Screaming Mimis, and eating in the rain with an unusual placemat. Part 2 of 2. (5:28)

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Stan Hodsdon did not last long as an MP after he balked at arresting black Red Ball Express drivers for driving too fast. Reassigned to the field artillery, he promptly got lost looking for his new unit and nearly drove into a German position. (6:37)

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An avid photographer, Stan Hodsdon was among the first to enter the Ohrdruf concentration camp when it was liberated. His photographs were in an article he wrote, which he believes was one of the first accounts of the Holocaust to be seen in the US. (3:05)

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Stan Hodsdon finally got to fly when the spotter plane he maintained for his field artillery unit needed a fill-in pilot. On a side trip to find camera film, he refused the surrender of an entire German town and shared a liquor warehouse with the Russians. Part 1 of 2. (7:49)