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To Harry Quinn, combat was the closest thing to Hell that a person could experience. Sleep was disrupted at night by...

Roland Chaisson was in the 1st Division [Annotator's Note: US Army's 1st Infantry Division] in Company B, 16th Infantry...

Charles Acker [Annotator's Note: of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division] shows the...

The weather was rough when Joseph Alter crossed the Channel [Annotator's Note: the English Channel on 6 June 1944]. It...

Gowan Duffy remembers the German planes would start at one end of the beach strafing and go on to the other end. [...

Ed Rendelman found that just surviving the war was the best experience he had in the combat. Seeing those wounded...

James Livaudais and his glider infantrymen met up with paratroopers after crossing the Merderet causeway. The...

Emory Maurice Ornelles [Annotator's Note: in the 90th Infantry Division] was working with tanks when a driver asked him...

William Earl Gast and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company A, 743rd Tank Battalion, 30th Infantry Division] were on a...

Besides morphine and cigarettes, John Kerner also carried along scotch. Back in England, they were worried the Germans...

Abe Milkis landed on Omaha Beach during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day. Rather than entering France as a...

[Annotator's Note: Can hear muffled chatter throughout this segment.] Monroe "Tex" Combs was born in October 1921 in...

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