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In 1949, Herbert W. Ridyard took a job with NACA, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which was the forerunner...

[Annotator’s Note: It is very difficult to hear the interviewer throughout this segment.] Milton Pearce was born in...

David Roderick experienced a lot of shelling and artillery and snipers when he landed. D Day began at 6:30 in the...

There were 18 or 19 men on Thomas J. Blakey's plane [Annotator's Note: from the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd...

Edwin Slomka was shipped overseas on the Aquitania [Annotator's Note: RMS Aquitania], which was turned into a troopship...

Also memorable to William Jucksch was meeting a Russian field outfit, similar to his own forward element, coming from...

Ralph Boyer served as a bombardier with the 560th Bombardment Squadron, 388th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force at...

Joseph Medicine Crow had a grandfather named White Man Runs Him. That grandfather was actually the brother of Medicine...

Guy Stern had landed on Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, three days after the invasion [Annotator's Note: 9 June 1944,...

While in Innsbruck [Annotator's Note: Innsbruck, Austria], Wayne Peer and the men in his platoon [Annotator's Note: I...

Heywood Mason [Annotator's Note: a Private 1st Class in the US Army 88th Infantry Division] dug foxholes, and when rain...

George Grugett was born in McConnell, Tennessee which no longer exists. His father worked for the railroad. He moved...

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