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Vernon Alexander had never been on a big boat before his overseas deployment. The troops were stacked five deep in the...

[Annotator's Note: Henry Langrehr says he landed on a greenhouse in Sainte-Mère-Église, France during the Normandy...

James Cockrell was born in Alabama in December 1924. He grew up where his parents had grown up. When he was young, they...

Cecil J. V. Newton’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he saw a German jet [Annotator's Note: German...

Warren Peiffer started out in England when he was in the Army. There was a German prison camp there. They kept Peiffer...

On a bombing mission over Berlin, Germany on 3 February 1945, Jesse Wofford's aircraft was badly damaged by German flak...

Frank J. Waldeck [Annotator's Note: in Company C, 1st Battalion, 411th Infantry Regiment, 103rd Infantry Division]...

During his service in England, Marvin Raymond Graham dated a young lady named Pat who he had met while on furlough [...

James Melvin Crane was born in Conehatta, Mississippi in Newton County. At 15 pounds, he was the largest baby boy in...

Mack Fitzgerald was a B-24 Liberator flight engineer from Georgia, assigned to the 409th Bombardment Squadron, 93rd...

Oscar Johnson was born in November 1925 in Pompano Beach, Florida. He had two brothers and a sister. His parents were...

In May 1943, Burt Richard Sadler would turn 18 years old. He did not want to join the Army because he saw so many drunk...

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