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Leo Terrebonne was sent to Fort Crockett near Galveston, Texas for seven weeks of basic training, after which he was a...

Almost all military men drank [Annotator's Note: alcoholic beverages] as they were young. Harold Stanford Cole saw a...

John Angier says that once the planes were settled on the bomb run, they could not change positions and the enemy knew...

[Annotator’s Note: There is a person off camera prompting the interviewee to answer the interviewer’s questions...

When they [Annotator's Note: Floyd Dumas and another escaped prisoner of war] got to the gates of the Vatican they were...

Most Americans today do not know much or care very much about World War 2. The education system does not teach children...

[Annotator's Note: This segment begins with John Rogers and the interviewer chatting about Belgium.] John Rogers was...

When Barbara Pathe landed [Annotator’s Note: in La Havre, France] there was a congressional delegation overseas that...

William Colgan served overseas with the 79th Fighter Squadron, 86th Fighter Group, 12th Air Force and flew in P-40s [...

Joseph Motil heard artillery passing overhead. All of a sudden he heard incoming fire. The next shell came a little...

Norman Riggsby started heading for the hedgerows [Annotator’s Note: after reaching the high ground on Omaha Beach, he...

While in combat in the Normandy's hedgerow country, an entire patrol from John Witmeyer's unit was killed by a German...

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