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John M. Roberts grew up wanting to go to school with his older brother so his mother lied to get him in. He caught up...

Harold Stanford Cole was born in New York in 1924. He grew up in a poor family. He loved the 1920s and 1930s. They had...

Byron Othello Wilkins saw men with different patches representing different divisions when he was captured. [Annotators...

Sometime in August [Annotator's Note: August 1944], Joseph Lesniewski and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd...

Bill Schwartz [Annotator's Note: assigned to the 115th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division] calls his combat...

Robert Christie was in combat for a few weeks before his tank was hit. They had to bail out of their tank. He was not...

Charles Coolidge took sheep into a minefield instead of sending men through it to be sure there were no mines. Early in...

James Albert Kitts then went to Pembroke to Camp Lamphey [Annotator's Note: Camp Lamphey, Pembrokeshire, Wales, England...

George Shenkle [Annotator's Note: serving with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] was...

Norris Waddill was selected with two other men to go into the D-Day invasion. He was to accompany the 1st Infantry...

Richard "Dick" Loges received orders for overseas deployment. He and his wife went to Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston...

Mancel Kirk was a squad leader. When he would send people out on a patrol or mission he would usually out on point. If...

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