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Elmer Nicholson, Jr. had to stay in Europe for about six months after the war ended. They went up the Moselle Valley to...

Robert Maxwell was laying communications wiring on the left side of a road at Besançon, France when he discovered that...

Monty Joe Boitnott was at a bomber base in Algeria. There were no air bases in Tunisia because almost all of the bases...

Alexander Marsh was in charge of three 57mm anti-tank guns and a platoon of 20 to 25 men. At night he could hear the...

[Annotators Note: Robert Murphy served in the army as a paratrooper and pathfinder in Company A, 1st Battalion, 505th...

Vernon Breen knew a little about driving a car, but when he was assigned to transport a captain and a radio...

[Annotator’s Note: There is background noise throughout this segment.] William Meyer was assigned as a rifleman with...

On the night of 6 December [Annotator's Note: 6 December 1944] Lou Brissie was called and told to have his men ready to...

Joseph Dean Reilly was part of the first replacements to join the 501st [Annotator's Note: Headquarters, 3rd Battalion...

In August 1944 Thomas Ballew’s unit [Annotator's Note: the 231st Searchlight Battalion] got orders to go overseas. They...

The worst aspects about Hugh Colbert's prisoner of war experience included his uncertainty regarding the future, the...

Different people handle combat in different ways. Richard Willett had a cousin who was a deeply religious family man...

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