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An average escort mission would last for 5 to 6 hours but some lasted 7 hours or more. That was a long time to be in a...

William Dabney notes that the equipment kept coming in [Annotators Note: across Omaha Beach in the days following the 6...

Harold Gournay left Camp Lucky Strike and stopped in Southampton, England en route to the United States. The trip was...

Eben Smith was relocated to Camp Lucky Strike in France [Annotator's Note: after being liberated from the Stalag Luft I...

James Moore Power [Annotator’s Note: with the 55th Armored Infantry Battalion, 11th Armored Division] was still in a...

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

Gerard Dillon was fully loaded, had his face darkened, and was ready to go [Annotator's Note: on 4 June 1944]. About...

Frankfurt [Annotator's Note: Frankfurt, Germany] was a big and important city that was guarded by thousands of 88s [...

After returning home, it was easy for Mark Gordon Hazard, Jr. to adjust back to civilian life. [Annotator's Note:...

John Edmund Murman, assigned to the USS Wilkes-Barre (CL-103), left Pearl Harbor [Annotator’s Note: Pearl Harbor,...

Harley Reynolds and his unit trained for Sicily on an incredibly rocky shoreline. The shore they actually landed on in...

About the time of the "bridge too far" [Annotator's Note: nickname for Operation Market Garden, Netherlands, 17 to 25...

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