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The Germans would use flares at night and drop them over the American convoy. At night this would illuminate the fleet...

Freddie Ohr was born in Portland, Oregon in 1919. When he was four years old they moved to Idaho where Ohr grew up. Ohr...

The mountain was at the opening of a valley. It was an important valley because of troop movements and positioning. The...

Thomas Michael Holt [Annotator's Note: a Second Lieutenant with the 1st Ranger Battalion] and his men were put on a...

Harley Reynolds remembers artillery fire coming in from one of the supporting ships out at sea. The shells came just...

Ivan Van der Pool believes having The National WWII Museum [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans, Louisiana] is important...

Robert Tyler Oakes was a radio operator [Annotator's Note: on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber in the 340th...

Paul Maymon [Annotator’s Note: with the 17th Field Artillery Regiment] was active in the bitter fighting through the...

Clifford Smith's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when a German horse troop surrendered to his unit [...

James Read Kirk got out of the war as a staff sergeant in September 1945. He immediately went to college. He used the...

Fred Topel decided to go into the National Guard with a few other friends. He was only 16 years old, so he had to lie...

After five weeks in Casablanca [Annotators Note: Casablanca, Morocco], Henry Dubay and his C-47 [Annotator's Note:...

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