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Arthur Spaulding was born in August 1925 in Oxnard, California. Back then, some women, including his mother were sent...

For Henry Phillips Sicily was a cake walk. They landed in Palermo from a big transport. The Germans used aircraft...

Erna Louise Deiglmayr was born in Antwerp, Belgium. She had a close family. Her mother was one of many children. She...

When Donald Beeghly got home from the war he did not know what he was going to do. There was a farmer down the road...

Chester J. Butcher was born in Pinhook, Louisiana [Annotator's Note: an area in Lafayette, Louisiana] in December 1922...

From Germany, James Pritchett was flown to, and treated at, a general hospital in Herefordshire, England. After about a...

Dan Baker was born in Marietta, Ohio in 1923. He attended Indiana University and was in the ROTC program. Despite being...

Normandy was bocage country [Annotator's Note: a terrain of mixed woodland and pastures] and was divided by stone...

Operation Cobra was the big breakout, and Harry Snyder said there were "thousands" of big bombers filling the skies and...

When Robert Whitcomb neared the ground [Annotator's Note: after bailing out of his damaged aircraft over Gymnich,...

The American troops were taken prisoner, and Alexander Marsh said he marched for three days into the interior of...

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