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After six weeks in a hospital, Vernon Brantley was put in a replacement unit. He missed out on the Colmar expedition [...

Eugene Yackel was born in March 1925 in Sanborn, Minnesota. He was raised on a farm. He spent the first ten or 12 years...

Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld had a horrible experience in the English Channel. He, along with many other troops, got very...

The disbanded 1st Special Service Force [Annotator's Note: also referred to as "the Force"] were spread all over...

Charles Coolidge recalls the weather at Monte Cassino as being cold and rainy. Coolidge feels that had they gone with...

Opal Grapes joined the Army and reported for duty at Foster General Hospital in Temple, Texas. She underwent training...

Harper Harvey Coleman and his unit [Annotator's Note: 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division] had...

After moving inland following the Normandy invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France...

Kenneth F. Thomas's unit [Annotator's Note: Company C, 322nd Medical Battalion, 97th Infantry Division] arrived in Le...

Seymour Reitman was near Aachen, Germany, which was the first German city taken by the Americans. From there, he...

[Annotator's Note: Henry Armstrong served in the Army on a forward observer team in Battery B, 607th Field Artillery...

His expertise was not required for the invasion of Normandy [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6...

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