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William Dabney had a couple of close calls when they were on the beach. A bomb fell and scared a lot of people. It left...

William Albright enlisted in the Army Air Corps because he wanted to fly, even though he had never flown before. He had...

John Steven Getway [Annotator's Note: a paratrooper with the 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, attached to the 504th...

Harry Bell served in Company F, 422nd Infantry Regiment [Annotator's Note: 106th Infantry Division] as a mortar gunner...

Vincent Losada first mission was on 3 January 1945 to Pfarghium [Annotator's Note: Pforzheim, Germany]. He thought it...

Solis “Sol” Kaslow was born in 1925 [Annotator’s Note: he grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]. His father worked on...

Following VE-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945], Marvin Sussman was stationed in the town of...

[Annotator’s Note: The sound is muffled.] Rockie Blunt’s father told him to join the Army. He attended Fort McClellan,...

Gerald Auerbach was born in New York City [Annotator’s Note: New York City, New York] in 1924. Because of the Great...

David Roderick moved to the coast near Weymouth and was put into a marshalling yard. They were kept in secret. No one...

The first rounds of artillery fire are often shot way over where you think the troops are and then you fire back to...

Carl Platkin was in England for a week before he flew his first mission. He went down to a briefing at four o’clock in...

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