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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bill Connelly [Annotator's Note: with the Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th...

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