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Herbert Heilbrun wrote his last letter before his final mission. [Annotator's Note: A baby has been crying in the...

John Witmeyer and the entire 79th Infantry Division were involved in the Battle of the Bulge, and he and his men fought...

Harold Baumgarten and the men he was with engaged about five Germans at a farm house on the bluff. He killed one of the...

[Annotator’s Note: There is background noise throughout this segment.] Joseph Fulton Jr. continued training in P-40s [...

Asked to describe his worst mission, Carl Koone recalled a long one that started normal and had proceeded on course...

Baum's combat command was a reserve command and the 1st 1 into the area at the front of the division. They came under a...

Josephine Pescatore landed on Omaha Beach. Upon landing, she noticed all the dead bodies. Some of them were in body...

Herbert Heilbrun packed up his gear and left for home without his crew. Heilbrun decided to take a ship home instead of...

In July of 1944, John Witmeyer and his men were some of the first American troops to cross the Seine River in France....

Donald Dean Paynter attended basic training in Houston, Texas. He just remembers it being physical and he got a lot of...

James "Jim" Geisler was in the Panama Canal when he learned of the Japanese surrender [Annotator's Note: Victory Over...

One morning for breakfast, the commander told Alfred Dietrick and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 1st...

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