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Raymond Burchell started smelling flesh. He thought maybe an air raid was happening. They could not see smoke. As they...

Charles Scheffel did not know what to do when people start shooting at him but he realized that he had to do something...

The area Norman Raner was in was where the eight-inch howitzers [Annotator's Note: M1 eight inch, 203mm howitzer; heavy...

Ivan Van der Pool's unit [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division]...

[Annotator's Note: Carl Peterson served in the Army as a mortar man in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment...

The war changed Richard Field. Field was used to being away from home but nothing prepared him for combat. After he...

Hairston operated a Howitzer during the war. He notes that artillery is never really precise. There were a lot of...

Alfred Dietrick [Annotator's Note: with Company B, 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division] went...

One of Ralph F. Lafferty's friends had been a ski instructor before the war. He was a wonderful skier, and they became...

Bruce LaRose [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, veteran of the North...

In November 1944, Reneau Breard and his unit [Annotator’s Note: with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd...

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