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Edward Tipper credits paratrooper training with assisting in making the attack on Carentan a success. The decision was...

[Annotator's Note: Can hear muffled chatter throughout this segment.] Monroe "Tex" Combs Monroe received orders to jump...

Gerard Dillon learned from working with General Howell [Annotator's Note: US Army Brigadier General George P. Howell]...

[Annotator's Note: An interviewer asks Thomas J. Blakey to tell him what it was like a few days before D-Day; the...

Raymond Burchell and his unit [Annotator’s Note: 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] were in combat...

Henry Langrehr had times his guns jammed and by the grace of God, he never got shot. The Thompsons [Annotator's Note: ....

William H. Biagioni was born in Danbury, Connecticut but grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut. During World War 2, he...

When orders came about a month after D-Day [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944],...

Bill Connelly [Annotator's Note: with the Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th...

Harry Quinn entered Camp Shelby in September [Annotator’s Note: 1943] and stayed there for about a week. From there,...

Henry Armstrong expected to go overseas. He thought he was going to the Philippines due having trained with mules. Once...

Joe Crandall served with the 635th Tank Destroyer Battalion in the European Campaign of World War 2. Two weeks before...

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