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Lewis Guidry entered combat first in France. The troops all knew exactly what to do and were prepared for their jobs....

Chester J. Butcher was born in Pinhook, Louisiana [Annotator's Note: an area in Lafayette, Louisiana] in December 1922...

Dan Baker was born in Marietta, Ohio in 1923. He attended Indiana University and was in the ROTC program. Despite being...

Henry Feldman and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Cannon Company, 121st Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry Division] moved...

[Annotator's Note: There is a very loud humming noise throughout this clip.] When he hit the beach [Annotator's Note:...

Frank Fontana and the 500 men in his outfit reached Paris one week after it was liberated. They went to Le Bourget...

Robert Martin was in the service from August [Annotator's Note: 14 August 1945] until the day before he was 21 years...

Lewis Guidry crossed the Rhine River near the Remagen Bridge [Annotator's Note: the Ludendorff Bridge in the city of...

Chester J. Butcher was resting and listening to the radio [Annotator's Note: at the United States Military Academy in...

John Raaen dated a nurse at the General Hospital at Cherbourg. They enjoyed dancing and drinking champagne when they...

John T. Fallon and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 3rd Battalion, 36th Engineer Combat Regiment] made the...

When Wesley Trindal joined his unit on the front lines as a replacement he did not see many people who were not also...

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