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Julian Gould Brunt was a Platoon Sergeant [Annotator's Note: in the 87th Chemical Mortar Battalion] at the beginning of...

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

For Bob Miksa [Annotator’s Note: Robert Miksa], D-Day was cold, damp and dark. H-hour was about 0630. Miksa and his...

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

Lewis A. Strandburg was a private in Company I, 325th Glider Infantry Regiment [Annotator's Note: Company I, 3rd...

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

When he completed basic training [Annotator's Note: at Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois], Sidney "Sid" Birns was sent...

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

Before World War 2 began, Lutz Windisch did not necessarily think that Germany was headed for war, but he grew up in...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer tells a story about another soldier talking about hand-to-hand combat.] Joseph...

Henrietta Harkness was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in October 1918. Her father was a foreman at the Bethlehem Steel...

[Annotator's Note: Gerard Dillon had been sent to deliver a message to US Army Lieutenant Colonel Charles J. Timmes to...

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