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

Jack Madden was transported on the old 40 and 8 train cars to his destination [Annotator's Note: following PT boat...

[Annotator’s Note: Birds chirping in the background is audible throughout this segment.] Edwin B. Cottrell was in...

Vernon Grimes was sent to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California], where he boarded a troop ship....

Hannan gives some background about his life in prewar Italy. He explains the attitude of the German youth and of an...

Vernon Wold was born in January 1926 in Fargo, North Dakota. He grew up on a farm with an aunt after his parents died...

William Dabney and his unit dug into the sand as soon as they landed on the beach. They could not move inland until the...

Robert Zawada began as a member of an I...

Jerome Harold Black got a call from General Lee [Annotator's Note: US Army Lieutenant General John Clifford Hodges Lee...

The Red Ball Express hauled the troops around and it was almost completely made of black drivers. When they got ready...

Andrew George Jameson heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

Jack A. Smithson was born in Malvern, Arkansas in 1923. As a kid, he worked in the sawmill there. At about 15, Smithson...

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