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To Harry Quinn, combat was the closest thing to Hell that a person could experience. Sleep was disrupted at night by...

Daniel J. Lennon remembered the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean was not particularly good for enlisted men. His unit [...

John Raaen and a portion of the 5th Ranger Battalion were detached and under the command of Sullivan [Annotator’s Note...

Johnnie A. Jones Senior was made a warrant officer [Annotator's Note: officers above non-commissioned officers,...

[Annotator's Note: Daniel Farley served in the Army as a rifleman in Company A, 5th Ranger Battalion.] On 9 June [...

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

John Raaen reached the coastal road and the wide open field adjacent to it. The field was approximately 200 to 300...

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

Ed Rendelman arrived in England after sailing from the United States in March 1944. The men knew there was a big build...

After Richard J. O’Brien disembarked from the ship in England [Annotator’s Note: having departed the United States in...

Robert Jagers landed on Utah Beach [Annotator's Note: Utah Beach, Normandy, France aboard the USS LST-351 on D-Day; the...

Edward Tipper credits paratrooper training with assisting in making the attack on Carentan a success. The decision was...

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