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Floyd Horne's combat tour ended 10 August 1944. He went up to Chorley [Annotator's Note: Chorley, England] for three...

David Olson felt most of the people in France were happy to see the Americans. They had never fully recovered from the...

Frank Fontana took his basic training in Camp Barkeley in Texas. It was miserable, desolate country. The training...

Gilbert Shawn was not shipped to basic training. Instead, he went to an air field in Kentucky as a cadet. Shawn took a...

Paul Baughman was born in Martinsburg, Pennsylvania in May 1920. He grew up there on a big farm until he was 15 years...

Once the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment arrived at Casablanca, Morocco and set up camp, Clinton Riddle and his comrades...

Robert Christie was assigned to a repo depot [Annotators Note: replacement depot] and shipped overseas. He was sent to...

David Paul Spencer’s first day of combat was not too eventful. There was a pretty decent firefight and his unit had a...

Robert Wolf carried an M1 rifle [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as the M1 Garand]....

Edmund Frodyma [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 67th Armored Field Artillery Battalion, 3rd Armored Division] moved...

Wallace Jeffery and his outfit of direction finders entered Normandy on 7 June 1944. The men climbed over the side of...

Elmer Nicholson, Jr. remembers the Germans had patrols. Both sides knew they were not going anywhere. The Germans did...

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