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Many of the I Company GIs were upset at what they had seen, some more so than others.The I Company commander "lost it."...

John Raaen and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters Company, 5th Ranger Battalion] drove toward Saint-Pierre-du-...

Robert "Bob” Ruiz [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the 389th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force, stationed in England] flew...

Samuel Lombardo went to Fort Shanks prior to going to Pier 42 in New York for departure on the Queen Mary. Lombardo was...

[Annotator's Note: Gilbert S. Shawn served in the US Army Air Forces as a pilot flying Consolidated B-24 Liberator...

James Eyre Wainwright was born in May 1925 in Whittier, California with one twin brother and two younger brothers. They...

The lowest point of Richard "Dick" Loges' service [Annotator's Note: with Company H, 2nd Battalion, 180th Infantry...

Melvin Dahlberg went to paratrooper school in Georgia. It was very difficult training, running five to ten miles every...

[Annotator's Note: Wilhelm Gehlen was a boy growing up in Viersen, Germany during World War 2.] Wilhelm Gehlen's father...

Don Tallon was born in Trenton, New Jersey in August 1924. His family was quite poor. The neighborhood was segmented...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Vernon Tweedt how difficult the landing at Salerno, Italy in Operation...

Henry Heim suffered all night long [Annotator's Note: Heim is referring to being injured during the Japanese attack on...

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