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John Kerner was assigned close to the front in a battalion aid station [Annotator's Note: 110th Medical Battalion, 35th...

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

Winnecken Gerhard was captured by the Americans. He still had a rifle grenade in his pocket after being searched. He...

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

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

Abe Milkis landed on Omaha Beach during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day. Rather than entering France as a...

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...

Walter Halloran was unaware that Time magazine had published an article in 1944 about the 165th [Annotator’s Note: the...

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

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

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

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