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Edward Tipper had his life improved as a result of his service in World War Two. He received a college education and...

According to Harry Snyder, anyone entering combat in Normandy between D-Day [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of...

Winnecken Gerhard was captured by the Americans. He still had a rifle grenade in his pocket after being searched. He...

Edward Dunne's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS LST-53] had a big ramp that the tanks would go off of. There were six...

In the early part of 1944, Irvin C. Klimas and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Thompson (DD-627)] were put in a...

After training at Fort Benning [Annotator's Note: Fort Benning, Georgia], Herman Yates was transferred to a Port of...

The seven men reached a town that had a substantial German presence and they saw officers sending men to different...

Bernard Knese remembers that on a mission to Holland or Belgium, one of the planes had to crash land. The pilot and co-...

Joseph Hartmann was in the "52-20 club" [Annotator's Note: a government-funded program that paid unemployed veterans 20...

Francis Dymnicki does not remember his first mission. He flew missions over France in preparation for D-Day [Annotator'...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was taking part in Operation Tiger, or Exercise Tiger, April 1944, preparing for the D-...

Russell Clark sailed toward Normandy with his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Charles Carroll (APA-28)] lingering offshore...

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