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Marvin H. Gohlke was in the States [Annotator’s Note: United States] on convalescent furlough [Annotator's Note: an...

Harley Reynolds remembers artillery fire coming in from one of the supporting ships out at sea. The shells came just...

John Gibbons does not believe that there was much gloom and doom when they were told during the briefing that the...

Henry Armstrong was in Austria on a security detail [Annotator's Note: while on occupation duty after the war]. The...

Walter Bala was stationed at Old Buckenham, England and lived in a Quonset hut with 16 other men. The hut had no...

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

Robert Swift was drafted. He received his draft notice before he turned 18. He was a medic in the 71st Division [...

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

In May 1943, Burt Richard Sadler would turn 18 years old. He did not want to join the Army because he saw so many drunk...

For days, James Flannigan recalls, the word was that they had to get to Saint-Lo [Annotator's Note: Saint-Lo, France]....

Robert Nichols Cresswell was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania in April 1924. He grew up in Swissvale, Pennsylvania....

Lloyd Geist's first mission was a sweep over France on 1 May 1944. The mission was uneventful. Geist recalled that he...

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