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Following the Normandy breakout, David Olson and his outfit [Annotator’s Note: the 87th Armored Field Artillery...

The next shocking thing Vernon Breen remembers was that as the war was winding down, a lot of the Germans got out of...

Samuel Jenkins was captured by German forces. They were lucky that they were not SS Troops because they would have been...

Charles Scheffel was wounded twice in Sicily, once in the arm and a fragment in his leg. Scheffel went back to the aid...

After completing his training, Mort Walker volunteered for overseas duty because he had heard that once the war was...

Richard "Dick" Willhour had no transition problems returning to civilian life. He attended college on the G.I. Bill and...

Jerry LaMura received his basic training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma on artillery. They were being trained as replacements....

Leo Terrebonne went to work in 1942 for Higgins Industries at the Industrial Canal Plant. He was out of school, and...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Guitard was assigned to the Prisoner of War Enclosure 339, Prisoner of War Information Bureau...

Reitmeier was aboard a troopship [Annotator’s Note: the SS Léopoldville with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 264th Infantry...

John Raaen and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters Company, 5th Ranger Battalion] drove toward Saint-Pierre-du-...

Howard Genrich had an accident while disassembling a .50 caliber machine gun. His finger was caught in the bolt and he...

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