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After spending one day in Paris, France, Hugh Colbert boarded a train for Le Havre, France in Normandy. Upon arriving...

Herbert W. Ridyard joined the 94th Infantry Division in Mississippi. The division was going on maneuvers in Tennessee...

A typical mission for Carl Koone began with the officers going for briefings and the aircrew boarding trucks that took...

Tom Quigley remembers how every Friday the officers would go to Baton Rouge for the weekend. Quigley struggled finding...

Stalag Luft was for airmen only. Luft is the German word for air. There were 8000 or 10000 of them there. There were...

Neil Cox thought he was blessed because he was raised on a farm. He grew up working hard and shooting guns. One soldier...

Henry Bodson [Annotator's Note: with the 39th Field Artillery Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division] got leave [Annotator's...

James Crane’s brother was taken prisoner by the Germans [Annotator’s Note: after being shot down over the Ploesti...

Zawada was in the camp for about a week before the American army liberated the camp [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war/...

Terrell Lavern Pigott was born in February 1923 in Picayune, Mississippi. He grew up on a dairy farm there. He worked...

Floyd Dumas' father worked for the New York Central Railroad in Malone, New York as a boilermaker. Dumas had three...

Charles R. Brown [Annotator's Note: with Headquarters Company, 66th Armored Infantry Battalion, 12th Armored Division]...

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