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Curt Simmons is trying to get the D-Day Museum [Annotator's Note: The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana]...

During the battle Commander Becton [Annotator's Note: Admiral F. Julian Becton] was very calm. He gave orders to the...

Harold Beal did not want to stay in the Navy. He had PTSD [Annotator's Note: post-traumatic stress disorder; a mental...

Irvin C. Klimas was in boot camp for six weeks. After boot camp, he had a ten day leave [Annotator's Note: an...

Paul Rothenheber was excited to be back home. He smoked alot of cigarettes at the time. When he would go home, he gave...

Joseph Brannan was born in Gillett, Arkansas in 1922. Raised during the Great Depression, his father had a business in...

Joseph Hartmann was shipped back to England. They were going to be court-martialed and do their time in England. The...

Theodore Vallas was born in March 1921 in a small town in Idaho [Annotator's Note: Pocatello, Idaho]. His father died...

Alois Kopp was in the water for nine hours before being picked up by Japanese [Annotator’s Note: After his ship, the...

Bob Bartlett [Annotator's Note: assigned to USS Barnett (APA-5)], was up most of the night before the invasion of...

Edward Dunne was born in October 1924 in Winsted, Connecticut. He got remarried after his first wife died and he moved...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was aboard USS LST-502 after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France.] They returned to...

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