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They left Fort Dix in October 1943. They sent their families home.They went to Europe on a liberty ship. The whole...

John Singlaub was nervous about parachuting into France, but, even so, his team was not ineffectual. Prior to the jump...

James Jordan deployed overseas right after OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school] at the end of 1945 or first...

Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld was stripped of his valuables after he was taken prisoner of war. [Annotator's Note:...

Leonard Lomell remembers that the Battle of Normandy lasted for two and half months. As the beachhead grew to be larger...

Opal Grapes saw the first patients arriving by midmorning or noon [Annotator’s Note: on D-Day, 6 June 1944]. The...

From there [Annotator's Note: the area around Bastone, Belgium], Sidney LaPook and his unit [Annotator's Note: 193rd...

After the Bulge [Annotator’s Note: Battle of the Bulge or Ardennes Counteroffensive, 16 December 1944 to 25 January...

Replacement troops to John Witmeyer's unit always reported to him so he generally learned the names of new recruits. In...

Donelson Houseman was put in a truck, along with about five others who were also in bad shape, and sent to a town near...

[Annotator's Note: Henry Armstrong reenlisted in the Army after returning home from Europe.] Armstrong was assigned to...

Mario DeCarlo recalled using a machine gun to fight in the hedgerows to get the Germans out of the trenches. His unit [...

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