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After they were captured, Joseph Rockforte and his fellow prisoners walked across France. When they stopped they were...

John Raaen dated a nurse at the General Hospital at Cherbourg. They enjoyed dancing and drinking champagne when they...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Joseph Alter what the trip overseas aboard the RMS Queen Elizabeth was like.]...

James Livaudais and his glider infantrymen met up with paratroopers after crossing the Merderet causeway. The...

James Deal and his tank battalion [Annotator's Note: 737th Tank Battalion] crossed the English Channel to land in...

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...

While Robert Max was on the Mauretania, zig zagging across the Atlantic, he knew there were German submarines in the...

Ed Rendelman found that just surviving the war was the best experience he had in the combat. Seeing those wounded...

[Annotator's Note: Joseph Stefaniak was in Nottingham, England preparing for the Normandy invasion.] They loaded up...

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

Gerard Dillon was fully loaded, had his face darkened, and was ready to go [Annotator's Note: on 4 June 1944]. About...

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