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Carl Platkin was born in September 1924 in New York City [Annotator’s Note: New York City, New York]. His father worked...

A neighbor of John Scott Campbell's had gone to sea. He would come home and tell sea stories and that sounded good....

Eugene T. Leavy was born on 26 November 1925 in New York City. At a young age, he moved with his family to the Jamaica...

[Annotator’s Note: This interview is conducted in a question and answer style]. Russell Engel was a navigator in the...

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

Bernard Hillenbrand does not recall too much of when he landed on Omaha Beach [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied...

There was a lot of "oohs and ahhs" at the mission briefing [Annotator's Note: for Victor Fienup's 17 August 1943...

David T. Morgenthaler reported to Langley Field [Annotator's Note: now Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia] in...

William "Bill" Parker arrived in southern England where he and other soldiers began preparing for a land invasion....

On 30 March 1945, Walter Rozett and his group [Annotator's Note: 369th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group,...

Charlie Lomax was in the Reserves [Annotator's Note: US Naval Reserve] about eight years. That was mostly training one...

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

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