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Wallace Hurley was initially trained as a scout but reassigned to regular infantry. His training was at Camp Robinson...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was assigned to the Tank Landing Ship, USS LST-502 for the invasion of Europe.] Because...

Frank Forcinella was going to go to Japan, and he made a mistake not doing it [Annotator's Note: the story is unclear...

Jack Appel served in the message center [Annotator's Note: Company B, 17th Signal Operation Battalion, 1st Army]...

Richard Tangradi remembers when the pilot called him to the front and gave him a cigar during a mission. The wing had a...

James F. Dorris, Jr. did not enjoy his first taste of combat. Some men were killed. They got reinforcements. They could...

Byron Othello Wilkins and other POWs worked in a nearby town called Euskirchen. They unloaded boxcars and one man found...

Edward Tipper remembered the attack on Carentan and his subsequent wounding as an ordinary series of events. The most...

Eben Smith was born in August 1923 in Pasadena, California. He remembers his childhood as being unremarkable; his...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip Irwin Medway looks at photographs, mostly off-camera, and reads statistics from...

Arthur Spaulding and his squad [Annotator's Note: in 2nd Platoon, Company B, 91st Chemical Mortar Battalion] were...

Maurice Zolkower was told he would receive a helmet with a Red Cross on it and be transferred to the 92nd Mechanized...

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