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Harold Lightell entered France right after the D-Day invasion with the 79th Infantry Division. The 79th was under...

James Craig was waiting to get on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] to cross to the beach [Annotator's Note...

Prior to jumping on D-Day [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944], some of the fellas...

[Annotator's Note: Gilbert S. Shawn was a prisoner of war after his aircraft was shot down on 12 April 1944.] After...

In the first days of June 1944, W. P. “Bill” Allen assigned to the USS LST-523 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank]...

Robert J. Hutchings was assigned as a stenographer under the command of General Eisenhower [Annotator's Note: General...

Jack Vandervort was sent to basic training again. [Annotator's Note: Lawton discusses the reasons in the clip titled "...

Frank Patti's division [Annotator's Note: Patti was a member of Company C, 1st Battalion, 333rd Infantry Regiment, 84th...

Raymond VanDuzer shipped out for England aboard a former luxury liner. There were no available troopships so these...

Neither Nicholas J. Zuras nor his crew were told about the Normandy invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied...

James D. Comeaux was born in August 1926 in Crowley, Louisiana and grew up in nearby Egan, Louisiana. He did a lot of...

William C. Smith, Junior [Annotator's Note: a forward observer with the 1st Infantry Division] was loading the ships [...

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