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

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

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

Philemon Andrews Saint Amant was in the British Isles [Annotator's Note: the United Kingdom, with the 190th Field...

Arthur Albertson was looking forward to going overseas. He wanted to go to Europe, not to the Pacific. He went to...

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...

Bud Olson [Annotator's Note: with Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 401st Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne...

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

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

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

Abe Milkis landed on Omaha Beach during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day. Rather than entering France as a...

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