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Oscar Otto Martin remembered that on his first day in combat, they were scheduled to attack at two in the afternoon,...

Robert Whitcomb went overseas on a converted cruise liner. After arriving in Liverpool he was sent to Chelveston Air...

When they got to the Marshall Islands they had to go over the side of the ship; that was a hard thing to do. He did not...

J. D. Graddy was born in Hopkins County, Kentucky in March 1925. He was the fifth child in a family of 11 siblings. One...

While waiting to go home William "Bill" Parker was named First Sergeant [Annotator's Note: in Company E, 116th Infantry...

While escorting bombers Clarence Anderson was leading his flight to the front of the bomber formation when he noticed a...

Robert Guitard was born in January 1927 in Westbrook, Maine, the home of Rudy Vallée [Annotator's Note: Hubert Prior...

Joseph Lesniewski liked his M1 [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as the M1 Garand]. It...

Theodore R. Lee grew up with four brothers, and all were in military service during World War 2. His mother did not...

The Allied forces had been unsuccessful in their bombing of the submarine bases at Lorient and Saint-Nazaire, and...

Joseph Dean Reilly and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters, 3rd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment,...

James Britt went to OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school]. He was sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma to an...

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