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Edward Gerrits was born in Racine, Wisconsin, but was raised in Miami, Florida. He enjoyed going to the Florida...

Francis Dymnicki would wake up very early in the morning to prepare for a bombing mission. Daylight hours in England...

Sol Lazinger saw his first dead American on Omaha Beach [Annotator's Note: Omaha Beach, Normandy, France] in the water...

John Marr landed in water up to his armpits on D Day after the jump [Annotators Note: into Normandy] and immediately...

Joe Crandall served with the 635th Tank Destroyer Battalion in the European Campaign of World War 2. Two weeks before...

Around D 7 [Annotator's Note: d-day, the initial day of the operation, plus seven days; 26 March 1945; Iwo Jima, Japan...

Edward Bonfoy Giller, Jr. and his unit [Annotator's Note: 343rd Fighter Squadron, 55th Fighter Group, 66th Fighter Wing...

[Annotator’s Note: Voices can be heard in the background throughout the segment.] After two days of cancellation due to...

Winnecken Gerhard was sent to Normandy around 15 May 1944, only a few weeks prior to the D-Day invasion [Annotator's...

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

Charles Coolidge passed through Rome and went as far as Roccastrada where the Germans turned and surrounded the...

Next, Leo V. Strausbaugh's unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 6th Ranger Battalion] joined the rest of his battalion at...

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