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[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was aboard USS LST-502 after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France.] They returned to...

Freddie Ohr realized the weather was bad. The ground crew said no one could fly. Ohr stayed a couple of nights in Paris...

[Annotators Note: William Guarnere was a paratrooper in Company E, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment,...

Irwin Stovroff and about 200 or so Jewish POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] had been separated by their German...

Joseph P. Fulco did not think the fighting was as bad after crossing the Rhine [Annotator's Note: Rhine River]. He...

[Annotators Note: Robert Walter was a platoon sergeant in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th...

David Roderick went to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey for 10 days. The men were checked for health and packed everything while...

Peter Harry spent six months in England then crossed the Channel to Omaha Beach in Normandy. He landed about two days...

[Annotator's Note: An interviewer asks Thomas J. Blakey if he is familiar with US Army Lieutenant General Lewis Hyde...

Francis J. Cook remembers the Germans treating GIs harshly in the camps. Food was sparse. He lost about 60 pounds in...

Carl Smith was born in January 1928 in Pittsburg, Georgia. It was a coal mining town. He had three sisters and four...

The nurses were not told much about their upcoming assignment on a hospital ship [Annotator's Note: the USAHS Thistle...

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