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Edward Shames participated in the battle of Carentan [Annotator's Note: 10 to 14 June 1944]. Shames says that the...

Jack Buckner enlisted because he was patriotic. It was his duty. He always wanted to fly so it was a great opportunity...

Jesse Schraub was born in Brooklyn, New York [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in New York, New...

Leonard Lomell and Sgt. Kuhn [Annotator's Note: US Army Staff Sergeant Jack Kuhn] kept advancing forward, but as luck...

Alexander White remembers that when the German army entered Dynow, the soldiers who encamped there were very impressive...

Kenneth Barnette was wounded in Europe only after a month of being in combat. He was sent to Southampton, England to...

William Patrick Bonelli was never injured in combat. The closest he got was shrapnel hitting his pilot's chair. He...

George Warner was born in November 1929 in Greenwood, Mississippi, where he lived until he was five years old and his...

Paul Wilson joined the 17th Airborne [Annotator's Note: Company A, 193rd Glider Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne...

Seymour Reitman returned to the United States on the SS George Washington [Annotator's Note: USAT George Washington]....

In December [Annotator's Note: December 1945], the Germans made their last effort to break through the Allied lines in...

Lynn Compton goes by the nickname Buck. Compton was born and raised in Los Angeles. He went to high school and then to...

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