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Earl Colson was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in November 1924. He had two brothers. His dad was a caretaker at the...

Charles Scheffel got married on 27 March 1942. He cut his college hours down so he could go on a honeymoon. Scheffel...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks slowly and pauses several times throughout segment.] Assigned as a gunner in the...

Gerard Dillon was in Vierville [Annotator's Note: Vierville-sur-Mer, France] when he got his first introduction to the...

Alfiero Giamberardino was born in May 1936 near Rome [Annotator's Note: Rome, Italy]. The American and British bombers...

[Annotators Note: Fred Hirsekorn served in the army as a gunner, then tank commander, and finally tank platoon...

Leroy Redmond was part of the invasion of southern France. It was unscathed as the war had been in the north for a long...

Charles Acker went through live-fire training. They had a little town set up and they would fire live machine guns and...

William Scully was shipped to Fort McClellan in Alabama for training. He was taught infantry work such as rifles and...

Woods was a wiper in the engine room. There were 15 wipers aboard large ships. The wipers reported to the 1st Mate....

Joseph Alter says it is hard to describe the humiliation and tension he went through [Annotator's Note: in officer...

Seymour Reitman entered a mountainous area with a panzer [Annotator's Note: German term for tank or armored] division...

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