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Alfred Dietrick [Annotator's Note: with Company B, 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division] went...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Field served in the Army as a paratrooper with the 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion, then...

Charles Coolidge recalls the weather at Monte Cassino as being cold and rainy. Coolidge feels that had they gone with...

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

The air raid sirens that would warn the ships of incoming kamikazes kept the men up day and night. Psychologically it...

Bryan Compton and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 120th Medical Battalion, 45th Infantry Division] attacked the...

Erwin Blonder remembers Marty Higgins [Annotator's Note: US Army Captain Martin J. Higgins] sending a sergeant and 35...

Charles Radford tried to keep his mind on the task at hand. Once someone died they were dead and they had to be able to...

Raymond Burchell started smelling flesh. He thought maybe an air raid was happening. They could not see smoke. As they...

John Shirley was an infantry replacement sergeant. He was stationed at Fort Meade, Maryland. After a three-day leave [...

Only one time did Frederick Amore come into a truly dangerous situation. He was not supposed to be in a "combat area,"...

Darrell Welch flew 61 missions and only had one furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of...

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