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[Annotator's Note: Can hear muffled chatter throughout this segment.] Monroe "Tex" Combs Monroe received orders to jump...

Robert J. Hutchings was assigned as a stenographer under the command of General Eisenhower [Annotator's Note: General...

William Dabney notes that the explosive did not have to be activated before being hauled up with the balloon. They...

[Annotator's Note: Donald Beeghly served in the Army as a pointer on a 90mm antiaircraft gun in the 142nd and 143rd...

Howard T. Maki was born in May 1925 and grew up in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. His parents were from Finland. Maki...

James Craig was waiting to get on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] to cross to the beach [Annotator's Note...

Edward Riedl played baseball in the 1930s. His goal was to be a professional baseball player. New Orleans [Annotator's...

William C. Smith, Junior [Annotator's Note: a forward observer with the 1st Infantry Division] was loading the ships [...

Henry Langrehr fought his way through a church yard [Annotator's Note: in Sainte-Mère-Église, France on D-Day, 6 June...

Clinton Gardner never thought of his own death but watched a few hundred men die. Gardner got sick and threw up around...

Hillman James Prestridge's most memorable experience from his time in the service was a mistake between him and a...

Raymond VanDuzer shipped out for England aboard a former luxury liner. There were no available troopships so these...

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