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Harvey Segal wanted to serve his country after he was drafted. He was inducted at Fort Devens [Annotator's Note: in...

Earl Tweed had to revamp his plans after getting off the beach and reaching high ground [Annotator's Note: Tweed had...

Edward Dunne's most memorable experience of the war is seeing dead people. It is bad, especially when it is a lot of...

William H. Biagioni was born in Danbury, Connecticut but grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut. During World War 2, he...

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

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

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

Bud Olson [Annotator's Note: with Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 401st Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne...

At 3:30 in the morning [Annotator's Note: on 6 June 1944], Harold Baumgarten and Company B [Annotator's Note: Company B...

[Annotator's Note: Bradford Clark Freeman served in the Army as a paratrooper in Company E, 2nd Battalion, 506th...

Prior to jumping on D-Day [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944], some of the fellas...

Hillman James Prestridge was serving in a field artillery unit [Annotator's Note: when he landed with the first wave at...

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