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The Germans would use flares at night and drop them over the American convoy. At night this would illuminate the fleet...

[Annotator's Note: An off-camera male interjects throughout this clip.] Carl Robert Gatlin and his regiment [Annotator'...

Charles Coolidge took sheep into a minefield instead of sending men through it to be sure there were no mines. Early in...

The Hurtgen Forest was thick so they [Annotator's Note: Roland Chaisson and the rest of the 1st Infantry Division] didn...

For two or three days, the Germans would stop, shoot at the American troops and then run [Annotator's Note: during the...

LSTs [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] do not normally land on a beach unless the beach is secure. Robert Jagers...

Wilburn K. Ross had his molars knocked out in France by shrapnel. His company commander had sent him and about eight of...

In May 1943, Earl Ervin Clark and the 87th Mountain Infantry [Annotator's Note: 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, 10th...

Alfred Dietrick was born in 1921. [Annotator's Note: The tape breaks as Dietrick is giving his birthdate]. [Annotator's...

[Annotator’s Note: There is white noise in the background.] Theodore “Ted” R. Rogal was born in January 1924 in...

Odell Vaughn stepped on a shoebox mine and lost both his legs. Vaughn had collected mines in his barracks bag prior to...

John Baldori in Newburg, Pennsylvania in February 1920. He grew up with four older sisters and two younger brothers....

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