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Carl Light had not done much traveling before he went into the service. He adapted to military life really well and...

Deploying overseas was the first time Stegmeier had ever left the country and it was interesting for him. When they...

Arthur Albertson was looking forward to going overseas. He wanted to go to Europe, not to the Pacific. He went to...

Philemon Andrews Saint Amant landed in London [Annotator's Note: London, England]. There were troops fighting in North...

Norman William Waldman [Annotator's Note: after being captured by the Germans after jumping on D-Day, the Allied...

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

Stewart Hihn's [Annotator's Note: with the 222nd Infantry Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division] clothing was inadequate....

After completing jump school, Manfred Steinfeld was assigned to the G2 section [Annotator's Note: intelligence section...

Abe Milkis landed on Omaha Beach during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day. Rather than entering France as a...

Burton Johnson remembers when he heard of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. Harry Truman was not a surprise as...

Clifford Campbell was born in Oklahoma in November 1924. His family was poor growing up. In 1936, his father bought a...

Leonard Gaj hit the ground quickly when he jumped [Annotator's Note: on D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy, France...

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