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During one battle, Richard Boyd and about five other soldiers were pinned down. The rest of the group ran into the...

[Annotators Note: Fred Hirsekorn served in the army as a gunner, then tank commander, and finally tank platoon...

Abe Milkis landed on Omaha Beach during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day. Rather than entering France as a...

Once James O. Evans completed all his training, he was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division and sent to Fort Meade,...

Fred Amram remembers they were changing peoples’ names to Americanize them in 1939. There was a man with a pad and he...

[Annotator's Note: John K. Ward jumped into France with the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division...

Michael J. Pohorilla's ball turret gunner, Herb Baudier [Annotator's Note: Herbert L. Baudier], was a Flamin' Cajun [...

William E. Byrnes was born in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] in January 1926. His family moved around a...

Among the many things Francis Neilson learned in Lincoln, Nebraska was that oxygen was a good cure for a hangover. In...

Harry Bell served in Company F, 422nd Infantry Regiment [Annotator's Note: 106th Infantry Division] as a mortar gunner...

George Beaugh recalled that his crew took the Northern route to England. Since the weather was so bad, they had to stop...

Rip Rice remembers they were trying to get the Germans to give up. They were going to take a town on the night of 18...

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