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After parachuting into France and landing in trees in the mountains, Melvin Dahlberg and other paratroopers from the...

Darold Rice says that soon after he was retired from the war and was taken to a hospital in Luxembourg. He ate, slept,...

Neither Nicholas J. Zuras nor his crew were told about the Normandy invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied...

The forward observers were doing their "usual thing" looking for a high point when William Jucksch said they came upon...

When Herbert W. Ridyard sailed the Atlantic [Annotator's Note: Atlantic Ocean] back to the United States, he never was...

The Americans had very qualified airplanes in the P-51 and P-47. He remembered that the P-47 could keep a higher speed...

After the end of the war in Europe, Carrol Joy began to see people released to go home. He did know how many points he...

Ralph Francis Hogan and his unit [Annotator's Note: 850th Bombardment Squadron, 490th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force...

David Olson felt most of the people in France were happy to see the Americans. They had never fully recovered from the...

Around the time of the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes Counter Offensive...

Robert J. "Bob" Goebel's last mission [Annotator's Note: with the 308th Fighter Squadron, 31st Fighter Group, 12th Air...

William Leo Spaetgens was born on a farm in Roberts Cove near Crowley, Louisiana in 1922. He had eight siblings but one...

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