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

Nobody on Omer Van Huylenbrouck's plane was ever wounded by flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire] as far...

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...

[Annotator's Note: Joseph Lesniewski joined Company E, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne...

Henry Langrehr was told about the D-Day [Annotator's Note: Allied invasionm of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944] plans....

After going ashore three months after D-Day, Robert Huber's unit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 3rd Battalion, 415th...

Jerry LaMura was sent to a hospital in Long Island [Annotator’s Note: Long Island, New York] and then to Washington D.C...

Roy Creek thought they were well prepared for Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy,...

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

Lionel Baxter trained on howitzers. They went through [Annotator's Note: training] in eight weeks because they were...

The Germans were good soldiers, well-trained, had good equipment, and did not want the Americans there. Thomas J....

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