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Title: Oral History Interview: Wesley Matthews of Mechanicsburg, February 21, 2008
Subject: Battle of the Bulge; Army; Infantry; Siegfried Line; Belgium; Germany; Veterans Affairs; VA hospitals; North African and European Theatres; Veterans and GI Bill
Description (Abstract): Wesley Matthews served in the army and fought in the Battle of the Bulge as an ammunition bearer. He was hit by shrapnel that pierced his thigh, and he lay wounded for a whole day and into the night before four soldiers rescued him.
File size: 1.02GB
Rights summary: Publicly performed with permission granted to Illinois Public Media at the University of Illinois to broadcast, archive and preserve for public access and use for nonprofit, educational, research, scholarship and personal uses. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. 
Unique identifier: WWII_oral_history_WesleyMatthews2008-02-21
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