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Elmo Bell and the men of Company C, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division repelled...

James Nannini says it was freezing in Europe. They never went inside and had to endure the frigid weather. [Annotator's...

Basil Woolf and his landing craft [Annotator's Note: LCH-269] beached on D-Day at Ouistrehan [Annotator's Note: Sword...

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

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

John Raaen saw an unbelievable number of ships on the morning of D-Day. There were thousands of ships all spaced apart...

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

Wayne Pierce felt the night attack on Cauyuigy was the right thing to do. The attack failed because the 400 Americans...

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

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

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

Earl James Erion grew up in Waubun, Minnesota. He was a high school student and young farm boy before he went into the...

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