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

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

[Annotator's Note: Can hear muffled chatter throughout this segment.] Monroe "Tex" Combs was born in October 1921 in...

When he completed basic training [Annotator's Note: at Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois], Sidney "Sid" Birns was sent...

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

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

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

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

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

Norris Morvant was drafted into the Army in late 1942 and was sent to a staging area in Alexandria [Annotator’s Note:...

Carl C. Bartels, M.D. [Annotator's Note: Doctor of Medicine] knew nothing about the invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day;...

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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