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Wesley S. Mullen underwent basic training at Fort Riley, Kansas. He was assigned to the horse cavalry, but it was soon...

Harry Quinn woke up in the morning [Annotator’s Note: of 6 June 1944]. He was the third man to go down the net into...

Roy Creek thought they were well prepared for Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy,...

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

Henry Armstrong expected to go overseas. He thought he was going to the Philippines due having trained with mules. Once...

[Annotator's Note: Can hear muffled chatter throughout this segment.] Monroe "Tex" Combs Monroe received orders to jump...

Winnecken Gerhard was sent to Normandy around 15 May 1944, only a few weeks prior to the D-Day invasion [Annotator's...

Donald Evans [Annotator's Note: and the 66th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division] went ashore [Annotator's Note: at...

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

James Nannini fought in World War 2 because he was drafted, but he would have gone in anyway because many of his...

The first combat jump Norman William Waldman and his regiment [Annotator's Note: 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment,...

After leaving Leipzig, Gerhard Franzky was caught at the border crossing at Premysl and sent to Berlin. In Berlin he...

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