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Earl Tweed arrived in England and was assigned to the basic set-up of the 29th Infantry Division. He remained in...

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

Stanley James Thurston was not provided basic training. After enlistment, he was sent to a pigeon outfit [Annotator's...

Gilbert Clift was at Camp Maxey [Annotator's Note: in Paris, Texas] for weeks without any idea where they were headed...

The weather was rough when Joseph Alter crossed the Channel [Annotator's Note: the English Channel on 6 June 1944]. It...

Winnecken Gerhard was sent to Normandy around 15 May 1944, only a few weeks prior to the D-Day invasion [Annotator's...

Edgar R. "Ross" Forman completed basic training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He did most of his freshman term in the Army...

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

At Camp Campbell [Annotator's Note: now Fort Campbell in Oak Grove, Kentucky and Clarksville, Tennessee], Frank...

The Hurtgen Forest was thick so they [Annotator's Note: Roland Chaisson and the rest of the 1st Infantry Division] didn...

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

Edward Dunne [Annotator's Note: a crewmen aboard the USS LST-53] has no particular memory of D-Day [Annotator's Note: D...

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