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For the Rhine crossing, the 17th Airborne Division was supposed to jump before they [Annotator's Note: the 313th...

Traveling on, Vernon Breen says he thinks the next town they approached was Achensee {Annotator's Note: assume he is...

Gordon Higgins describes food rations, and continues with his experiences as the war progressed. He said it took 30...

Kenneth Barnette was drafted into the Army at age 18 in March 1943. He was sent to Fort Barkley in Abilene, Texas for...

Robert Boeke was assigned a jeep as a part of his intelligence and reconnaissance [Annotator's Note: as part of the...

Samuel Lombardo and his regiment [Annotator's Note: Lombardo was a platoon leader and the executive officer of Company...

Robert Wolf carried an M1 rifle [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as the M1 Garand]....

John Foy wanted to mention something about the quartermasters. They were mostly black units, relegated to unloading...

Charles Acker was in Bastogne [Annotator's Note: Bastogne, Belgium with the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st...

On 2 March 1945, Eugene Vaadi and his crew were shot down over Dresden, Germany and taken prisoner. On 4 April 1945,...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Willett was in Camp Lucky Strike near Le Havre, France.] They finally left Lucky Strike and...

For the next two weeks, Ralph Sykes continued moving forward taking village after village without much trouble. Coming...

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