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Walter Halloran spent his first night in France in an apple orchard [Annotator’s Note: Halloran had landed that morning...

Richard Scheerer does not recall hearing any news about D-Day prior to crossing the Channel. The first night he sat...

At Fort Benning, Georgia, Thomas J. Blakey went through communications school after he qualified [Annotator's Note: as...

After training at Fort Benning [Annotator's Note: Fort Benning, Georgia], Herman Yates was transferred to a Port of...

James Roy Colquitt was born in September 1926 in Needmore, Alabama. He was one of nine children. His family lived on a...

Joseph Dean Reilly went back to work when he returned home. He could use the GI Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill,...

Henrietta Harkness [Annotator's Note: an Army nurse with the 24th Evacuation Hospital] left on D-Day [Annotator's Note...

Doctor James B. Heneghan's father was a civil engineer. He helped design the very first pre-stressed concrete arches...

George Will was born in 1941 in Illinois. He has one memory of the war years. He was four years and three months old...

Francis Dymnicki would wake up very early in the morning to prepare for a bombing mission. Daylight hours in England...

James Kemp McLaughlin remembers that after the bombers got fighter cover everything got easier. A damaged aircraft...

Charles Coolidge passed through Rome and went as far as Roccastrada where the Germans turned and surrounded the...

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