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Freddie Ohr had a lot of things happened to him. The first guy Ohr encountered really tried to make it tough on him....

Looking back, F.M. Richard Simons and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 3rd Battalion, 87th Mountain Infantry...

Edward Lalande was born in Moreauville, Louisiana in March 1919. He had three brothers and three sisters. He had a good...

When Edward LaPorta landed in Oran all he could see was the German fortress which had two giant spotlights shining out...

[Annotator's Note: Lalande takes very long pauses before answering many of the questions he is asked.] Edward Lalande...

Edward LaPorta was a halftrack driver during his first battle. He remembers that they had nothing to fight with except...

When Carl Peterson was in the service the guys he served with would get together and have fun. In Sicily they had a...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout the clip, Clarence Edward "Ed" Riggs, Jr. refers to papers he is holding as he discusses...

In 1943, elements of Ralph F. Lafferty's unit [Annotator's Note: 2nd Battalion, 86th Mountain Infantry Regiment, 10th...

Claude L. Lewis remembers they had to dig foxholes. The Germans had left big piles of sandbags. They could see the...

When Crain was in the armada heading towards the beaches [Annotator's Note: during the invasion of Sicily, July 1943],...

Reneau Breard [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] was...

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