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On 9 June [Annotator's Note: 9 June 1944, during the Normandy invasion], they sent out platoons into a couple of fields...

Wayne Lebsack was born in July 1925 in Great Bend, Kansas. He and his two sisters grew up in Galatia, Kansas where his...

After surviving the sinking of his troopship, [Annotator’s Note: the SS Léopoldville] George Reitmeier was sent to the...

Marvin H. Gohlke did not plan to be a hero. His goal was to do what he had to and to survive. The 94th Division [...

Samuel W. Smith wanted to join the Air Corps as an aviation cadet. In 1942, Smith convinced his mother to sign his...

Henry Burkle’s wife’s father was trying to raise chickens. One of the things Burkle did during the Depression [...

Biddle was not allowed to return to combat because he was being put up for the Medal of Honor. He was told that he had...

[Annotators Note: This segment begins with the interviewer brushing off Robert Murphy’s coat]. After the big battle on...

James Harvard London returned to Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston, Massachusetts] on the same ship that took him to...

After Richard Edward Gile was discharged from the Army, he took advantage of the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I....

Jack Albert Del Monte was drafted in September 1942 and sent to Fort Dix [Annotator's Note: now Joint Base McGuire-Dix-...

Vera Goodkin's [Annotator's Note: née Herman] parents had an American visa to escape Czechoslovakia but did not. While...

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