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Roy Creek thought they were well prepared for Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy,...

David Roderick knew the true goal was to capture Cherbourg at the end of the peninsula which took until 25 June. It was...

Francis Hurd's engineering unit [Annotator's Note: the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion] built a number of Bailey...

Gerald West walked back two miles to the main camp and Edson [Annotator's Note: USMC Colonel, later Major General,...

Eveline Peardon and her siblings visited the young soldiers every day after D-Day [Annotator’s Note: the 6 June 1944...

William G. Roy is proud of his role in the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway. He thinks that the...

Sammy Ray was born in February 1919. After two years of courses at a junior college [Annotator's Note: Sunflower Junior...

Armando Galella's duties changed when he became battalion sergeant major, working at headquarters and answering only to...

When President Truman [Annotator's Note: Truman, Harry S., 33rd President of the United States] dropped the atomic...

Nobody on Omer Van Huylenbrouck's plane was ever wounded by flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire] as far...

[Annotator's Note: Donelson Houseman served in the Army as the 81mm mortar platoon leader in Company D, 1st Battalion,...

Gustave Heinecke enrolled at Washington and Lee University in 1940. His roommate in 1941 was the son of a congressman...

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