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Crump stayed in the shipyard for the better part of a year. They had launched about 14 ships. The launching details had...

Crismon and Malcolm Higgins talked over what they wanted to do. Higgins told him to go down to the back of the plane...

Edward Dunne [Annotator's Note: a crewmen aboard the USS LST-53] has no particular memory of D-Day [Annotator's Note: D...

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

The day after they arrived in Spain, Fred Manasse and his brother caught a train to Barcelona, Spain where they stayed...

Philip Schmidt received his orders to go overseas in November 1944. In the year and a half he was at Fort Polk [...

[Annotator's Note: John K. Ward jumped into France with Company G, 2nd Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment,...

Jerry LaMura was born in Manhattan [Annotator's Note: Manhattan, New York City, New York] in June 1925. He grew up in...

Harold Baumgarten continues talking about his experience when he reached Omaha Beach [Annotator's Note: on D-Day, 6...

Barbara Heming got a job in Hamburg as a bilingual secretary. She had claimed that she was proficient in English and...

Robert Rupp liked the military. He decided while he was in school that if he was going to war, he would rather be an...

Ed Tunnicliff was assigned to another tank. A couple days later, after they got knocked out, he thought he was the only...

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