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[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks slowly and pauses several times throughout segment.] Vernon Ollar participated in...

Walter Halloran spent his first night in France in an apple orchard [Annotator’s Note: Halloran had landed that morning...

Russell Van Matre [Annotator's Note: assigned to G-2, military intelligence, US Army 2nd Infantry Division] continued...

Willie Roy Hebert joined the Marine Corps due to their reputation. He came out of boot camp as a PFC [Annotator's Note...

Carl Landwehr was transferred to the 8th Air Force in High Wycombe [Annotator's Note: 8th Air Force Bomber Command...

Grant Patton remembers they had to use five-gallon cans to gas the airplanes up. His plane had depth charges [Annotator...

Garland Bath and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 483rd Antiaircraft Automatic Weapons Battalion] were attached to the 5th...

On D-Day [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944], Omaha [Annotator's Note:...

Doctor James B. Heneghan's father was a civil engineer. He helped design the very first pre-stressed concrete arches...

Bernard Friedenberg and his unit [Annotator's Note: Medical Detachment, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st...

James Kemp McLaughlin remembers that after the bombers got fighter cover everything got easier. A damaged aircraft...

Lysander "Ben" Neighbors [Annotator's Note: stationed in Duxford, England with the 14th Fighter Group] serviced P-47s [...

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