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[Annotator's Note: Curt Simmons served in the Navy in the Armed Guard as a gunner aboard merchant ships in the North...

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

James Craig thinks the war made him grow up. Before he was in the Army, all he knew how to do was farm. He has done a...

James Livaudais knew he had really seen combat after the battle at La Fiere and the Merderet crossing. He thought at...

Olen Grant spent Christmas 1943 in a prison camp. For Grant, the holidays were just like any other day. Some of the...

Water Douglas was born in January 1920 in Bradford, Pennsylvania. He grew up with two younger brothers. His father, a...

Edgar L. McKay was born on 2 January 1925 in Gulfport [Annotator's Note: Gulfport, Mississippi]. He had four sisters...

Robert Lewis Beilman and his unit [Annotator's Note: 1st Battalion, 242nd infantry Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division]...

[Annotator's Note: Robert L. Williams served in the Army as a paratrooper in Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th...

For Harley Reynolds, it was extremely emotional going back to Normandy for the first time. Reynolds and the honorary...

Francis J. Cook remembers the Germans treating GIs harshly in the camps. Food was sparse. He lost about 60 pounds in...

Harvey Segal was born in May 1925 in Roxbury, Massachusetts [Annotator's Note: Roxbury is a neighborhood in Boston]....

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