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After three months on the Normandy beachhead, John Edward Pierce [Annotator's Note: with Company A, 149th Engineer...

Charles Taylor was born in December 1923 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. Taylor recalls growing up during the Great...

Raymond VanDuzer was liberated by an advance echelon of American troops. The American soldiers marched the prisoners...

After his hometown [Annotator's Note: Apeldoorn, Netherlands] was liberated [Annotator's Note: on 17 April 1945],...

When he arrived in Paris, France, Robert Sweatt's escorts introduced him to three young men of the French Resistance...

Edward J. Nickerson, Jr. was born in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] in July 1920. His father was a...

Robert Nichols Cresswell was an original member of the 291st [Annotator’s Note: 291st Engineer Combat Battalion] when...

Charles Taylor was assigned to the USS Absecon (AVP-23) as the catapult officer, even though he had no training in this...

Floyd Dumas' father worked for the New York Central Railroad in Malone, New York as a boilermaker. Dumas had three...

Gilbert Shawn was not shipped to basic training. Instead, he went to an air field in Kentucky as a cadet. Shawn took a...

Along with his fellow refugees, Robert Sweatt was taken under guard to London, England. A bombardier from his squadron...

[Annotator's Note: Edward Nickerson flew across the Atlantic and landed in Scotland in early 1944.] Edward Nickerson...

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