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When Raymond VanDuzer first went into the hedgerows [Annotator's Note: the hedgerows of Normandy] he mixed some drinks...

It wasn't easy for Martin Baranek to fit into society after the war because his formative years were bereft of...

[Annotator's Note: In 1943, Richard Willett went to trial for trying to sneak into a movie theater and the judge...

In June 1943, Don Carter was drafted with 60 other boys from his town [Annotator's Note: Hornell, New York]. They...

Z. Anthony Kruszewski wanted to go to England to study. He went to southern France with the Army. The French recognized...

When Mancel Kirk was in the Anzio beachhead the only time they could get out [Annotators Note: of their foxholes] was...

John Arch McGill says the war was a terrible waste, in terms of loss of human life, of destruction to communities, and...

John Koenigsberg’s mother escaped to another region in Holland [Annotator’s Note: the Netherlands]. His father worked...

To Charles Fitts, Jr., actual combat was not at all similar to their training. In combat, Fitts and his section did not...

Raymond Mason did his first flying in an L-4 [Annotator’s Note: Piper L-4 Grasshopper]. Mason saw barrage balloons when...

Roy Joseph Moss kept advancing toward Leon [Annotator's Note: Léon, France] where the Germans were strongly positioned...

Steve Pisanos scored his first victory on 21 May [Annotators Note: 21 May 1943]. They had taken bombers to Frankfurt,...

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