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Robert Shoens sent a telegram to his wife in Maine to let her know that he was coming home soon. There were a bunch of...

After going over the side, the boats would then form up waves of ten or twelve boats which rode around in circles until...

William Pena remembers how his battalion commander was a gung-ho, brave, and tall man who refused to stay at the rear...

Frieda Weinreich was born in July 1924 in Lodz, Poland. She was the baby of the family of six children. They were an...

Gerhard Franzky’s unit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters, 22nd Regiment, 10th SS Panzer Division "Frundsburg"] suffered...

Jack Rolfson saw shellshock [Annotator's Note: also known as post traumatic stress disorder or PTSD] in some of the...

Samuel W. Smith wanted to join the Air Corps as an aviation cadet. In 1942, Smith convinced his mother to sign his...

[Annotators Note: Warren Schmitt was a forward observer in Battery B, 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion.]...

Elmer Nicholson, Jr. went to Southampton, England first. They [Annotator's Note: Nicholson and the rest of the 66th...

Baum was sickened by the sight and the situation. He had to regroup his men and come up with a plan to get back to the...

Bernard Hillenbrand does not recall too much of when he landed on Omaha Beach [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied...

Philip Grass [Annotator’s Note: who enlisted in the Army in 1942] remembers they had to learn all they could [Annotator...

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