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[Annotators Note: Charles Scheffel served in the army as an infantry officer. He was sent to England with five other...

Malarkey's group did not have pathfinders to identify the drop zone. Their pathfinders had gone down in the channel [...

The young men [Annotators Note: at the Florida Army Air Corps base] were very eager once they learned some of the...

After the war in Europe ended, Jerome Fatora was sent to Czechoslovakia to train for the fighting in Japan. While he...

Robert Boeke [Annotator's Note: with 341st Infantry Regiment, 86th Infantry Division] was leading the division in his...

His experience in the military had a maturing influence on Phillip Candella. He was from a small town [Annotator's Note...

Mason Dorsey and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 71st Reconnaissance Troop (Mechanized), 71st Infantry Division] got in...

At Fort Benning, Georgia, Thomas J. Blakey went through communications school after he qualified [Annotator's Note: as...

Baldwin didn't have much to do with Capt. Fritts, but he liked him alright. Fritts knew he was a Captain, knew he was...

The first thing Lawrence Angst did when being shelled was jump in a foxhole. They learned how to protect themselves. He...

[Annotator's Note: An interviewer asks Thomas J. Blakey to tell him what it was like a few days before D-Day; the...

When you woke up in the morning, you had to make up your bed and it had to be basically a foot or 2 off the floor. The...

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