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[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was aboard USS LST-502 for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944.] They...

Bud Olson volunteered for overseas duty in October 1943. Sent to a replacement depot in England, Olson volunteered for...

Everybody was scared the first time, and every time they jumped out of an airplane. Gerard Dillon says that if you were...

Walter Halloran hit the beach and saw many men die as soon as the ramp was dropped [Annotator’s Note: he was assigned...

During training in Dachau [Annotator's Note: Dachau, Germany], Lutz Windisch trained mostly on machine guns such as the...

Chet Graham [Annotator's Note: Chester Earl Graham] addresses the defense of the causeway to Chef-du-Pont [Annotator’s...

The closest Kenneth H. Bailey got to combat engagement was in the Mortain [Annotator's Note: Mortain, France]...

Henry Langrehr was at the La Fiere bridge [Annotator's Note: La Fiere, France] when a German tank came down the...

[Annotator's Note: Carl Peterson served in the Army as a mortar man in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment...

Earl Tweed advanced from being a platoon commander with 35 to 40 men at full strength to being a company commander with...

Roger Bertolini served in the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. He did his basic training at Camp...

[Annotator's Note: An interviewer asks Thomas J. Blakey to tell him what it was like a few days before D-Day; the...

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