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David Oreck was in Minneapolis, Minnesota when he heard of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He and many others had never...

Bud Olson volunteered for overseas duty in October 1943. Sent to a replacement depot in England, Olson volunteered for...

William Earl Gast and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company A, 743rd Tank Battalion, 30th Infantry Division] were on a...

After D-Day, Bob Miksa [Annotator’s Note: Robert Miksa] and the 745th Tank Battalion drove to Caumont. That was the...

Henry Langrehr had heard about the paratroopers. When he went to join, he told them that is what he wanted. At that...

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

During training in Dachau [Annotator's Note: Dachau, Germany], Lutz Windisch trained mostly on machine guns such as the...

The closest Kenneth H. Bailey got to combat engagement was in the Mortain [Annotator's Note: Mortain, France]...

Carolyn Bridgforth was going to be a dietician. There were very few jobs available to women. She did not finish her...

The seven men reached a town that had a substantial German presence and they saw officers sending men to different...

When orders came about a month after D-Day [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944],...

Roger Bertolini served in the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. He did his basic training at Camp...

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