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

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

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

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

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

They left Fort Dix in October 1943. They sent their families home.They went to Europe on a liberty ship. The whole...

Philemon Andrews Saint Amant landed in London [Annotator's Note: London, England]. There were troops fighting in North...

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

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

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

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

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

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