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Winnecken Gerhard was sent to Normandy around 15 May 1944, only a few weeks prior to the D-Day invasion [Annotator's...

Samuel Lombardo joined the National Guard on 11 November 1939. He had a friend in the Guard who coaxed him into doing...

[Annotator's Note: Bud Loring was badly burned after being shot down over France. Locals had taken him into a house to...

Harley Reynolds remembers the air filling with bullets. About 20 or 30 yards in, Reynolds made it to an obstacle called...

The war changed John Scott Campbell's life. He probably would have been a schoolteacher. He loves history. The war made...

Christopher Blake [Annotator's Note: a novelist and playwright who served with the 6th Tank Destroyer Group in Europe]...

Ernest Chauvin was born in Houma, Louisiana in October 1925. He lived there until he was drafted in 1943 or 1944. His...

They were not really Russian soldiers, but they were of Ukranian descent. Standifer called them Russians. If the...

Eva Aigner was born in 1937 in Kosice, Czechoslovakia. Her father would travel and sell hats while her mother would...

For the next two weeks, Ralph Sykes continued moving forward taking village after village without much trouble. Coming...

Phillip Candella was born in 1913 in Eunice, Louisiana, and grew up during the Great Depression. His family lived in...

After World War 2 ended, Louise Post Ritter volunteered to go overseas to Europe as an Army Nurse with her sister. In...

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