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Francis Hurd's engineering unit [Annotator's Note: the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion] built a number of Bailey...

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

Bill Connelly [Annotator's Note: with the Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th...

After going ashore three months after D-Day, Robert Huber's unit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 3rd Battalion, 415th...

Norris Waddill was selected with two other men to go into the D-Day invasion. He was to accompany the 1st Infantry...

Byron Herbert Meader was sent to Camp Shelby, Mississippi and assigned to Headquarters, 271st Infantry Regiment [...

In 1944, Guy Stern and his unit were broken into six-man intelligence teams. They were on an Australian fruit boat, the...

They left Fort Dix in October 1943. They sent their families home.They went to Europe on a liberty ship. The whole...

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

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

Byron Othello Wilkins was taught what to do if he became a POW but no one figured they would become POWs. They boarded...

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

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