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Now that Edward Shames was an officer as well, he could tell Lieutenant Nye [Annotator's Note: US Army First Lieutenant...

Andrew George Jameson's mother was born in Greece and had taken him there several times. Going overseas from Fort Meade...

Arthur Staymates was too young to be frightened by the impending D-Day invasion [Annotator's Note: on 6 June 1944]....

Joseph Lesniewski liked his M1 [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as the M1 Garand]. It...

Bill Schwartz's most memorable experience of World War 2 is D-Day [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of...

After exiting the beach at Normandy, John Raaen and his men followed the hedgerows in case they would be fired upon....

Joseph Venerloh was sent to a replacement depot, from there was assigned, and loaded up into a truck. He was dropped at...

Wayne Pierce and his regiment were moved to an airbase in the south of England in anticipation of the start of the...

Lewis A. Strandburg first saw paratroopers of the 507 [Annotator's Note: 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment] on the...

Between 12 and 15 paratroopers arrived in Ireland with Bradford Clark Freeman, and Winters [Annotator's Note: later US...

Arthur Albertson was looking forward to going overseas. He wanted to go to Europe, not to the Pacific. He went to...

Robert Curl and his boat crew left the English port [Annotator's Note: Weymouth, England] at midnight on 6 June [...

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