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Opal James Grapes was born in Franklin County, Virginia in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She grew up on a farm...

Walter Trauner remembers the people were nice. They were taken over by the Nazis. He had cousins who were in the German...

About 2 December [Annotator's Note: 2 December 1944] James Alspaugh and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 102nd Infantry...

Julia L. Myers wanted to join the Army because of the war. She felt, as a nurse, that it was her duty to care for the...

Leon Dixon can only remember that it was 7 December 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

In preparing for deployment overseas, Richard Frothingham remembers that the 656th Field Artillery [Annotator's Note:...

Sydney Levit was born in Philadelphia [Annotator's Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] in July 1924. He grew up in a...

After Normandy, Robert G. Frey and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division]...

Marvin Sussman was born in Chicago, Illinois in August 1923. Other than one trip to see his grandparents in New York,...

James F. Dorris, Jr. did not enjoy his first taste of combat. Some men were killed. They got reinforcements. They could...

The first person Lynn Compton met up with after the jump into Normandy was Winters [Annotators Note: Richard Winters]....

Russell Clark and Company A [Annotator's Note: Company A, 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry...

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