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Robert G. Frey was born in August 1924 in Bethlehem and ended up in Bath [Annotator's Note: Bethlehem and Bath,...

Edward Shames and his men stopped at a French farmhouse and met an old lady and man. The woman started to scream and...

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...

On 5 June 1944, the squadron was about to take off to rendezvous with the mine sweepers when Solis “Sol” Kaslow, who...

When Kenneth H. Bailey landed on Utah Beach [Annotator's Note: Utah Beach, Normandy, France], they drove the LST [...

James Livaudais knew he had really seen combat after the battle at La Fiere and the Merderet crossing. He thought at...

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...

Harold Beal thought the English were nice people. They would travel up and down the coast to practice making landings....

Dominic Fiore [Annotator's Note: with the 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division] arrived overseas, stationed at...

Leonard Lomell and the rest of the 2nd Ranger Battalion loaded the channel steamers a day or two before D-Day [...

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