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Norman William Waldman [Annotator's Note: after being captured by the Germans after jumping on D-Day, the Allied...

In July 1944, Richard "Dick" Schneider found himself with an extremely painful wisdom tooth. The dentist had a terrible...

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

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

Robert L. Williams' buddy Joseph Slosarczyk was in charge of the pigeons. In England, Joe was tasked with throwing...

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

[Annotator's Note: Donelson Houseman served in the Army as the 81mm mortar platoon leader in Company D, 1st Battalion,...

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

Roy Creek remembered taking the bridge at Chef-du-Pont [Annotator's Note: Chef-du-Pont, France]. The bridge was intact...

After completing jump school, Manfred Steinfeld was assigned to the G2 section [Annotator's Note: intelligence section...

David Roderick knew the true goal was to capture Cherbourg at the end of the peninsula which took until 25 June. It was...

more missions after D-Day and then returned to the United States. He was in Milwaukie on V-E Day and in Louisiana when...

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