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Vernon Alexander was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1924 and lived there for the first five years of his life. His dad...

While in Innsbruck [Annotator's Note: Innsbruck, Austria], Wayne Peer and the men in his platoon [Annotator's Note: I...

Eugene Yackel and Cranston Rogers [Annotator's Note: later US Army Colonel Cranston R. "Chan" Rogers] got along well....

Frankfurt [Annotator's Note: Frankfurt, Germany] was a big and important city that was guarded by thousands of 88s [...

Walter Sapp had been in his foxhole for eight days. He could not stand or walk. Two men lifted him out and he woke up...

Wilbur Thomas recalled the difficulties of managing the French Army while he supervised the pipelines. He also...

Josephine Reeves was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in April 1919. Growing up, Reeves attended the West Catholic...

[Annotator's Note: This segment begins with John Rogers showing a map to the camera which has different code words on...

[Annotator's Note: Henry Langrehr says he landed on a greenhouse in Sainte-Mère-Église, France during the Normandy...

George Reitmeier’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was crossing the Channel [Annotator’s Note: English Channel...

Jerry LaMura was born in Manhattan [Annotator's Note: Manhattan, New York City, New York] in June 1925. He grew up in...

On 9 June [Annotator's Note: 9 June 1944, during the Normandy invasion], they sent out platoons into a couple of fields...

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