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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,...

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

[Annotator's Note: An interviewer asks Thomas J. Blakey to tell him what it was like a few days before D-Day; the...

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

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Roswell Weil about the weeks leading up to the D-Day invasion of Normandy,...

Raymond Eugene Overcash was born in Lanett, Alabama in 1923. He was drafted in 1943. He did his basic training in...

Late on the night on 5 June 1944, John Marr and the men of Company G, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment boarded their...

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 [...

Harold Paul [Annotator's Note: a paratrooper in Company A, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division]...

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