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From Carentan [Annotator's Note: Battle of Carentan, 10 to 14 June 1944, Carentan, France], Bradford Clark Freeman...

Vernon Alexander had never been on a big boat before his overseas deployment. The troops were stacked five deep in the...

Robert W. "Doby" Gibson left Camp Myles Standish in Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston, Massachusetts] on the troop ship...

John L. Cowan does not remember much about his time in the military. It was not very exciting. Cowan decided to serve...

Julia L. Myers remembers the winter of 1944 in Belgium. It was cold and miserable. It was snowy and the bombing of...

Norman Ikari went from the aid station to the 56th Evacuation Hospital. This was a forward tent hospital where they...

Peter Harry spent six months in England then crossed the Channel to Omaha Beach in Normandy. He landed about two days...

Philip Schultz was born in April 1919 in a tiny village near Minsk, Belarus. His father had previously immigrated to...

When he arrived in France, Arles J. Doss went to Saint-Lo [Annotator's Note: Saint-Lô, France], which had been totally...

Herbert W. Ridyard benefited from his service and combat all during his later life. It helped him physically, mentally...

After John Lillibridge was discharged from the Army, he had no intention of returning to military life even though he...

Franklin Denius had taken artillery training in the ROTC at the Citadel and wanted to be in the artillery. He got his...

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