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John Singlaub compared British to American parachutes. The British chute was different in many ways compared to the...

James "Jim" Geisler was born and raised in Pittsburgh [Annotator's Note: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]. He was 18 years old...

Irwin Medway was drafted on 18 January 1943 and was to report to basic training. After basic, he was sent to Camp Tyson...

Tom Quigley remembers the inefficiencies of the Red Cross and its volunteers and the impractical attitude they took...

[Annotators Note: This segment begins with the interviewer asking Franklin Denius to talk about the build up to the...

Gerard Halpern finished high school in 1943 then took one semester at a City College before dropping out and joining...

James Craig was born in August 1918 in Tennessee. His father worked for the Beaver Brothers. He did a lot of hauling...

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

Harvey Segal reached the French coast. He had to board a landing craft after taking off his 80 pound pack. The timing...

Kenneth F. Thomas had returned to the United States to train for the invasion of Japan, then he was put on a ship...

Richard "Dick" Loges [Annotator's Note: with Company H, 2nd Battalion, 180th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division...

William S. Meyers, Jr. [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 929th Field Artillery Battalion, 104th Infantry Division]...

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