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Bastogne was very cold. There, Edward Shames' platoon mostly executed patrolling actions. Shames relates that his...

William Splichal was sent to North Carolina after he was drafted. He was put into the infantry for six months. He went...

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

Alexander Marsh was in charge of three 57mm anti-tank guns and a platoon of 20 to 25 men. At night he could hear the...

Gowan Duffy had a bazooka [Annotator's Note: man-portable recoilless anti-tank rocket launcher weapon] up on the hill....

George F. Mills [Annotator's Note: captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes Counter...

Michael Linquata had a duty at the beginning of his combat service to check personnel for injuries after any artillery...

Donelson Houseman was confident in his training. What worried him was that he did not know where he was. He was taken...

Angelo Joseph Spinato's [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 4th Platoon, 2nd Battalion, 394th Infantry Regiment, 99th...

Norman Neste had no preconceived ideas of what the German military would be like. Once he had encountered them, he...

Walter Sapp had been in his foxhole for eight days. He could not stand or walk. Two men lifted him out and he woke up...

[Annotator's Note: Wilson Shoughrue served in the Army as a rifleman in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 424th Infantry...

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