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John Kerner was around the city of Mortain, France in heavy battle [Annotator's Note: Operation Lüttich, German...

Replacement pilots were in high demand in Europe so Joseph Pilcher was sent to Rennes, France for assignment to a...

Richard Boyd was born in November 1924 and grew up in York, Pennsylvania. During World War 2 he served in Company B,...

Gatewood's area was comprised of American POWs. They maintained their ranks and their discipline. Gatewood remembers a...

Theodore Vallas was born in March 1921 in a small town in Idaho [Annotator's Note: Pocatello, Idaho]. His father died...

James Crane got into the Merchant Marine because Roosevelt [Annotator’s Note: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and...

Joseph Lesniewski had no problems with his first jumps. He told his sister that when he made the jumps, he would take a...

Charlie Lomax was in the Reserves [Annotator's Note: US Naval Reserve] about eight years. That was mostly training one...

Richard Ford was pinned down by a German machine gun. He was up against a hedgerow so tight that he could not move. The...

Before World War 2 began, Lutz Windisch did not necessarily think that Germany was headed for war, but he grew up in...

John Steven Getway [Annotator's Note: a paratrooper with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division...

Richard Duchossois knew his unit was going to be a tank destroyer unit. None of the men in the battalion had ever even...

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