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

Different people handle combat in different ways. Richard Willett had a cousin who was a deeply religious family man...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was aboard USS LST-502 for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944.] They...

Louis Cardenas was put into the 36th Infantry Division. They learned how to dig foxholes and fire rifles. They would...

At Camp Campbell [Annotator's Note: now Fort Campbell in Oak Grove, Kentucky and Clarksville, Tennessee], Frank...

After training at Fort Benning [Annotator's Note: Fort Benning, Georgia], Herman Yates was transferred to a Port of...

Paul Baughman jumped into Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944]...

When Bernard Friedenberg [Annotator's Note: a medic with the Medical Detachment, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment...

George Will was born in 1941 in Illinois. He has one memory of the war years. He was four years and three months old...

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

Stanley James Thurston was not provided basic training. After enlistment, he was sent to a pigeon outfit [Annotator's...

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

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