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Monroe S. Wolyn was impressed by the military power of the 8th Air Force. Wolyn’s plane was in the lead group [...

Anthony Bianconi [Annotator's Note: a musician and ammunition loader on the cruiser USS Philadelphia (CL-41)] was...

Robert Lewis Beilman and his unit [Annotator's Note: 1st Battalion, 242nd infantry Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division]...

Richard "Dick" Willhour was withdrawn from the front after being wounded [Annotator's Note: in Bitche, France with the...

When they left St. Lo, they were in dairy and farming country. The farms were laid out in squares and there were mounds...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was assigned to the Tank Landing Ship, USS LST-502 for the invasion of Europe.] Because...

The English were incredibly grateful for the American presence. Robert Shoens and his crew stuck together when they got...

Samuel W. Smith remembers they were attached to the Army. It was the Army Air Corps. In 1949, they started the Air...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with the interviewer explaining what he will be doing during the interview....

Harold Stanford Cole was born in New York in 1924. He grew up in a poor family. He loved the 1920s and 1930s. They had...

Francis Neilson was born in October 1925 in Tacoma, Washington. His parents divorced when he was a toddler, and his...

Frank Fontana arrived in Great Britain as a young man. [Annotator's Note: Fontana was deployed with three others in mid...

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