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As an adult decades later, there was a disaster in the Atlantic with the Andrea Doria [Annotator's Note: the SS Andrea...

World War II changed John McCarthy and his life tremendously. Without the war, he might have been a factory worker....

Harold Gournay left Camp Lucky Strike and stopped in Southampton, England en route to the United States. The trip was...

Monty Joe Boitnott never got the Garand rifle in his outfit. The first things they got did not even have a bayonet but...

Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld had a horrible experience in the English Channel. He, along with many other troops, got very...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Joseph Alter what the trip overseas aboard the RMS Queen Elizabeth was like.]...

On the morning of D plus 4 [Annotator's Note: 10 June 1944], the 90th Infantry Division moved into the area where...

Burt Richard Sadler did not have time to think about the end of the war. He thought he would be sent to drive landing...

Roy Creek remembered taking the bridge at Chef-du-Pont [Annotator's Note: Chef-du-Pont, France]. The bridge was intact...

John Arthur Stege briefly used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944...

In 1949, Robert Haffner helped establish the Detroit Chapter of the 82nd Airborne Division Association and served as...

Alfred Pierse Murphy was born in Dublin, Ireland in May 1922. He celebrated his third birthday on the boat taking him...

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