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Bernard Knese remembers that on a mission to Holland or Belgium, one of the planes had to crash land. The pilot and co-...

The Americans had very qualified airplanes in the P-51 and P-47. He remembered that the P-47 could keep a higher speed...

Carl Smith had three sons. They all live in Georgia. He has six grandchildren and some great-grandchildren as well. In...

Russell Schuman was born in 1924 in St. Louis, Missouri. He grew up with an older brother, who later worked an...

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

Robert Martin moved into New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] on Saint Claude Street in a mixed-race...

During one battle, Richard Boyd and about five other soldiers were pinned down. The rest of the group ran into the...

Backtracking to the time when he was outside of Valmontone, Italy, Robert Boyer recounted an incident when they [...

John T. "Jack" Race was born Crystal Lake, Pennsylvania in May 1921. He grew up there. His father was a carpenter and a...

Carl Light had not done much traveling before he went into the service. He adapted to military life really well and...

Harold Roed was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1926. He had an older brother, who was also in the service, and a younger...

In late April 1944 they [Annotator's Note: Roland Chaisson and the rest of the 1st Infantry Division] were put on...

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