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Edwin Slomka was shipped overseas on the Aquitania [Annotator's Note: RMS Aquitania], which was turned into a troopship...

Robert Murphy's platoon leader, Lieutenant Dolan [Annotators Note: First Lieutenant John J. Dolan, also know as Red Dog...

Frank Maresca had just finished eating Sunday dinner and had turned on the radio to listen to a ball game. During the...

After graduating from advanced training, Second Lieutenant Eugene Vaadi was assigned to the 385th Bombardment Group...

George Grugett was born in McConnell, Tennessee which no longer exists. His father worked for the railroad. He moved...

Edgar L. McKay and others received orders [Annotator's Note: from US Army Lieutenant General George S. Patton, Jr.] to...

Lieutenant John Marr had encounters with other American officers and commanders in the field early on in the Normandy...

[Annotator's Note: Floyd Horne enlisted in the Army Air Forces at Chanute Field in Champaign County, Illinois in July...

Bernard Peters was born in March 1923 in Oakland, Oregon. He had two older brothers and two younger sisters. His father...

[Annotator’s Note: Birds chirping in the background is audible throughout this segment.] Edwin B. Cottrell was in...

Once the war ended, Robert Rupp was in an area of Czechoslovakia for several days. The Germans just poured in. There...

There was no way to avoid the war. Japan attacked a US territory [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor...

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