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In July 1944, Richard "Dick" Schneider found himself with an extremely painful wisdom tooth. The dentist had a terrible...

Francis Hurd's engineering unit [Annotator's Note: the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion] built a number of Bailey...

At the conclusion of World War 2, there were celebrations, but Thomas W. Gillette did not participate because he had...

When President Truman [Annotator's Note: Truman, Harry S., 33rd President of the United States] dropped the atomic...

Solis “Sol” Kaslow grew up in Philadelphia [Annotator’s Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]. He was drafted into the Navy...

James Moshovitis was born in March 1925 in Washington, D.C., the only son of three children born to Greek immigrants....

They left Fort Dix in October 1943. They sent their families home.They went to Europe on a liberty ship. The whole...

Roy Creek remembered taking the bridge at Chef-du-Pont [Annotator's Note: Chef-du-Pont, France]. The bridge was intact...

Sammy Ray was born in February 1919. After two years of courses at a junior college [Annotator's Note: Sunflower Junior...

Eveline Peardon and her siblings visited the young soldiers every day after D-Day [Annotator’s Note: the 6 June 1944...

Byron Othello Wilkins was taught what to do if he became a POW but no one figured they would become POWs. They boarded...

Nobody on Omer Van Huylenbrouck's plane was ever wounded by flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire] as far...

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