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

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

David Roderick knew the true goal was to capture Cherbourg at the end of the peninsula which took until 25 June. It was...

Bernard Hillenbrand does not recall too much of when he landed on Omaha Beach [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied...

more missions after D-Day and then returned to the United States. He was in Milwaukie on V-E Day and in Louisiana when...

While stationed in England [Annotator's Note: at Royal Air Force Boxted, Colchester, England], Clarence Carlson would...

In 1944, in a town called Baupte, France, Carl Beck says there was a man named Henri D. Schmidt, a Belgic [Annotator's...

Henry Langrehr was told about the D-Day [Annotator's Note: Allied invasionm of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944] plans....

Gerald West walked back two miles to the main camp and Edson [Annotator's Note: USMC Colonel, later Major General,...

Arthur Albertson was looking forward to going overseas. He wanted to go to Europe, not to the Pacific. He went to...

Frederick Ellis was sent to Hollandia, New Guinea. He recalls that they were not slated to go on the Leyte [Annotator's...

They [Annotator's Note: Vernon Tweedt's family] had a Philco radio. When he heard the news [Annotator's Note: of the...

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