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Charlie Lomax [Annotator's Note: a Naval officer in a special communications task force in the Naval Amphibious Forces...

Leonard Jindra heard many rumors while training in England. In the 29th [Annotator's Note: Jindra was a member of...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer has Harry Tennant answer questions written to him.] Harry Tennant was in the Naval...

John Raaen dated a nurse at the General Hospital at Cherbourg. They enjoyed dancing and drinking champagne when they...

Edward Shames participated in the battle of Carentan [Annotator's Note: 10 to 14 June 1944]. Shames says that the...

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...

[Annotator's Note: Frank Biondo and his Company C, 5th Engineer Special Brigade were sheltering behind steel girders as...

D-Day [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944] was supposed to be on 5 June 1944. Burt...

Irvin C. Klimas and his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Thompson (DD-627)] gave support to the Rangers [Annotator's Note:...

Opal Grapes arrived in Scotland after about a five day voyage from the United States. She then traveled by train toward...

Wayne Pierce returned to his regiment and was placed in Company B. He went to the battalion commander who told him...

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

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