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Robert Nichols Cresswell left Remagen [Annotator’s Note: as a truck driver in the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion, he...

Phillip Candella was born in 1913 in Eunice, Louisiana, and grew up during the Great Depression. His family lived in...

Frank Maresca saw his first combat at Bristol. Shortly after they were issued their ammunition and k rations they were...

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

Benjamin Wolf Cohen got his legal middle name after he contracted Polio as a young child. He was cured miraculously...

Wallace Hurley seldom knew where he was when he was in combat. He entered France and fought there before crossing into...

Heywood Mason [Annotator's Note: assigned to a Machine Records Unit] was guarding German prisoners of war at Camp Lee [...

In June 1943, Don Carter was drafted with 60 other boys from his town [Annotator's Note: Hornell, New York]. They...

Carl Payne heard about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941]...

Irving Becker was assigned to Headquarters Detachment, 2nd Battalion, 1st Regiment, 1st Special Service Force. A book...

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

The Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes Counter Offensive, 16 December 1944...

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