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Bud Olson was prepared well by his training prior to flying into Normandy [Annotator's Note: with Headquarters Company...

Kept waiting, Dominick Sgobbo was disappointed that he didn't get to Normandy until August 1944. The whole 2nd...

William Pena remembers how readjusting to life with his crippling injury was very difficult. Life without part of his...

Richard Ford notes that they really got nailed at the Elbe River. They moved up to an area one afternoon and the next...

Kenneth J. Hanson [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 410th Infantry Regiment, 103rd Infantry Division] saw combat in...

Robert Heller was low on fuel and had to decide what to do. While looking for a field to take the plane down, he sent a...

The hedgerows were maybe 1,000 years old and enclosed every acre or two. Joseph Alter says some of them were eight feet...

Hitler had invaded Czechoslovakia and Poland and the Allies declared war in October 1939 [Annotator's Note: Britain and...

When Richard Scheerer was hit he had shell fragments in the heart sack and his left lung. They were in the hedgerows at...

Glen Jostad thought life at Stalag VI was much better than Stalag IV. [Annotator's Note: Jostad was initially held at...

Donald E. Casey was captured by German soldiers [Annotator’s Note: after his Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber...

Dr. Thomas Fitzpatrick was born in September 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His family lived in a rural area...

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