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Delbert Wombacher landed in Le Havre, France in 1944. They were to move as far into France as they could and set up...

Leahr got quite a bit of mail from home. Mail was important to him. He had three brothers in the service. One brother...

John Scott Campbell was on three ships that sunk. The first ship went down slowly. The rescue boats do not come in, you...

Wilbur Thomas recalled the difficulties of managing the French Army while he supervised the pipelines. He also...

There was a guy in Joseph Diamond's outfit [Annotators Note: the 413th Infantry Regiment, 104th Infantry Division] that...

After John Marr was assigned to a parachute infantry battalion at Fort Benning, Georgia, he learned that the same...

The pathfinders went out about 20 minutes ahead of Henry Langrehr and his men. That alerted the Germans and there was...

One could fire automatically from the hip. The M-1 could get muddy, wet, and whatever else and it would fire. The...

During the war, Melvin Linkous experienced an incident where an individual accused him of having a soft job. Captain...

Nobody on Omer Van Huylenbrouck's plane was ever wounded by flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire] as far...

After leaving the aid station [Annotators Note: near Chambois, France on August 20, 1944] Hawk was looked at by...

Catholic nuns looked after the wounded in Normandy [Annotator's Note: Normandy, France], Holland, and Bastogne [...

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