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Baum's combat command was a reserve command and the 1st 1 into the area at the front of the division. They came under a...

[Annotator’s Note: A washing machine running in the background is audible throughout this segment.] Gerald “Gerry”...

Edward Shames participated in the battle of Carentan [Annotator's Note: 10 to 14 June 1944]. Shames says that the...

On 23 February 1945, R.M. Wilkes crossed the Roer River [Annotator's Note: at Roerdorf, or Rohrdorf, Germany]. Rogers'...

Harold Roed was shipped overseas to England on the Mauretania [Annotator's Note: RMS Mauretania], an ocean liner...

Vernon Brantley was born in Sturgis, Kentucky in September 1924. He moved to South Bend, Indiana with his family...

Darold Rice and his last member of his machine gun crew set the gun up in a ditch by the crossroad and hunkered down...

Gerard Dillon was in Vierville [Annotator's Note: Vierville-sur-Mer, France] when he got his first introduction to the...

Mort Walker then got on a train and went back to Missouri University. He returned to school to complete his journalism...

Kenneth F. Thomas's unit [Annotator's Note: Company C, 322nd Medical Battalion, 97th Infantry Division] was sent to...

Philemon Andrews Saint Amant [Annotator's Note: a member of the OSS, Office of Strategic Services; pre-runner to today'...

Josephine Pescatore believes that it is important for future generations to know about World War 2. A lot of people do...

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