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[Annotator's Note: There is a very loud humming noise throughout this clip.] When he hit the beach [Annotator's Note:...

Robert L. Williams thinks it very important that museums and memorials commemorating World War 2 continue to tell the...

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....

Solis “Sol” Kaslow grew up in Philadelphia [Annotator’s Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]. He was drafted into the Navy...

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...

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

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

Donald W. Bertino arrived at Utah Beach [Annotator's Note: Utah Beach was one of the two American landing beaches in...

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

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

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

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