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On 9 June [Annotator's Note: 9 June 1944, during the Normandy invasion], they sent out platoons into a couple of fields...

When Elizabeth Gibbens completed basic training, she was sent to Camp Shanks, New York. She found it exciting to get...

Around five on the morning of 6 June 1944, Eveline Peardon and her family were awoken by the sound of heavy artillery...

Leonard Gaj hit the ground quickly when he jumped [Annotator's Note: on D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy, France...

Emory Maurice Ornelles was sent to Camp Wolters [Annotator's Note: later Fort Wolters in Mineral Wells, Texas] for...

Robert G. Frey has spoken more to the interviewer about the war than he has ever previously done. He was there and when...

James Livaudais entered the service in March 1942. His division was to be the Sergeant York Division. The decision...

After a year and a half of training, James W. Phillips rode on the Queen Mary ocean liner to Europe with his division [...

John Raaen found England to be great duty in preparation for the invasion. It was apparent that the equipment buildup...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee refers to notes throughout segment] James Mathews [Annotator’s Note: born in 1917] grew...

Roy Creek knew they did not get enough troops across the bridge [Annotator's Note: the causeway in La Fiere, France]....

Edward Tipper remembered the attack on Carentan and his subsequent wounding as an ordinary series of events. The most...

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