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There were two black soldiers at the door yelling that the Germans were coming. Lyle Bouck and Kriz [Annotators Note:...

Leroy "Lee" Solice decided to reenlist because he did not have other options, and he enjoyed his time in the Army. He...

John Raaen saw an unbelievable number of ships on the morning of D-Day. There were thousands of ships all spaced apart...

Frank Aleksandrowicz remembers that Normandy [Annotator's Note: Normandy, France] was a great place. Americans were...

Robert Rans says that after being liberated from his prisoner of war camp in Romania, it was an unbelievable feeling to...

Fred Hirsekorn's first combat was in the Vosges Mountains. They moved so much and so fast that they all lost track of...

After the Germans surrendered, Seymour Mermelstein was part of rounding them up to send back to Germany. [Annotator's...

Leroy "Lee" Solice [Annotator's Note: served four tours with the Army in Germany between 1946 and his retirement in...

Frank Aleksandrowicz remembers that they moved from France to Belgium for the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note:...

Robert Rans was discharged from the US Army Air Forces in 1946. He immediately applied and was accepted at Notre Dame [...

[Annotators Note: Fred Hirsekorn served in the army as a gunner, then tank commander, and finally tank platoon...

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