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Leonard Lomell remembers that the Battle of Normandy lasted for two and half months. As the beachhead grew to be larger...

Alois Kopp was aboard the USS Houston (CA-30) defending Java when the ship was sunk. He survived and was taken prisoner...

Joseph Diamond was under mortar attack when he was wounded. A mortar shell exploded about 20 yards away and he felt a...

After his first combat [Annotator's Note: during Operation Avalanche, 9 to 16 September 1943, Salerno, Italy], Alfred...

Eugene Vaadi enlisted in the US Army Air Forces at age 20 and was sent to Maxwell Field in Montgomery, Alabama for...

Burt Richard Sadler believes Great Britain and the United States will always be friends. He visits the Eight Air Force...

Richard O. "Otto" Bertz had never been as cold as he was in combat. He still has trouble with his feet and goes to bed...

Terrell Lavern Pigott sailed home on the the West Point [Annotator's Note: USS West Point (AP-23)], which was a sister...

Joseph Motil heard artillery passing overhead. All of a sudden he heard incoming fire. The next shell came a little...

Vernon Leo Tyler [Annotator's Note: in the 100th Infantry Division] had to climb ropes to get on the troopships. He...

Jack Weiss got off his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Columbia (CL-56)] and went on the South Dakota [Annotator's Note:...

His father continued his attempts to get his family out of Europe, according to Fred Manasse, and when Belgium was...

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