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The Germans were good soldiers, well-trained, had good equipment, and did not want the Americans there. Thomas J....

Wallace Hurley missed his bed most of all while he was in combat. The rain was heavy in France. Foxholes filled up so...

Richard Scheerer never spoke much about the war after he got home. He just wanted to forget it. It was a four year...

Kenneth J. Hanson [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 410th Infantry Regiment, 103rd Infantry Division] saw combat in...

Frank Biondo was not doing much after the war was over. He took a furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for...

Norman Alden Briggs went to basic training at Fort McClellan, Alabama. Briggs was placed in the I and R, Intelligence...

Robert W. "Bob" O'Connor [Annotator's Note: a Communications Sergeant in Company E, 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute...

Raymond Eugene Overcash was born in Lanett, Alabama in 1923. He was drafted in 1943. He did his basic training in...

Henrietta Harkness [Annotator's Note: an Army nurse with the 24th Evacuation Hospital] was sent to Nijmegen, Holland...

Rose Bayuk was born in 1915 on a plantation in northern Minnesota. The fourth of five children, she lived the greater...

When Bernard Friedenberg [Annotator's Note: a medic with the Medical Detachment, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment...

Frank Mancuso crossed the Volturno River prior to Monte Cassino. His unit gathered in a courtyard to refuel their...

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