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Nicholas J. Zuras obtained binoculars in Weymouth [Annotator's Note: Weymouth, England]. The wooden decks of the boats...

Francis Hurd's engineering unit [Annotator's Note: the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion] built a number of Bailey...

Robert W. McDonald [Annotator's Note: serving in the US Eighth Air Force] pulled detail one night as the kitchen ran 24...

Robert Christie was in combat for a few weeks before his tank was hit. They had to bail out of their tank. He was not...

Oscar Otto Martin remembered that on his first day in combat, they were scheduled to attack at two in the afternoon,...

They [Annotator's Note: Vernon Tweedt's family] had a Philco radio. When he heard the news [Annotator's Note: of the...

Norris Waddill was selected with two other men to go into the D-Day invasion. He was to accompany the 1st Infantry...

Leon Schafer is certain the war affected his life afterwards. Number one, he never left his wife. When he got home, he...

Byron Othello Wilkins was taught what to do if he became a POW but no one figured they would become POWs. They boarded...

Eveline Peardon and her siblings visited the young soldiers every day after D-Day [Annotator’s Note: the 6 June 1944...

Carl Light had not done much traveling before he went into the service. He adapted to military life really well and...

Bernard Hillenbrand does not recall too much of when he landed on Omaha Beach [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied...

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