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John Raaen found England to be great duty in preparation for the invasion. It was apparent that the equipment buildup...

[Annotator's Note: Robert L. Williams is a World War 2 veteran of the 101st Airborne Division and jumped into Normandy...

389.Photograph. "File No: 231,231 June 6, 1944 Up Grade to Victory Symbolizing the up-hill fight the Allies have had,...

While John Witmeyer and his fellow soldiers waited aboard ship to land at Utah Beach on D Day, they did not know that...

William C. Smith, Junior [Annotator's Note: with the 1st Infantry Division] looked at a close-up of the barbed wire [...

The D Day assembly plans for paratroopers like John Marr were completely forgotten in the chaos of the jump. The...

Gowan Duffy remembers around five in the morning [Annotator’s Note: on their way to D-Day, the Allied invasion of...

Benjamin "Dusty" Rhoads departed from New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] and arrived in London [Annotator'...

John Raaen saw an unbelievable number of ships on the morning of D-Day. There were thousands of ships all spaced apart...

On the night of 5 June 1944, Oscar Otto Martin went into town to celebrate his birthday with friends. On his way back...

For Bob Miksa [Annotator’s Note: Robert Miksa], D-Day was cold, damp and dark. H-hour was about 0630. Miksa and his...

Andrew A. Rooney was covering the 8th Air Force [Annotator's Note: for the Stars and Stripes, American military...

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