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

Burton Johnson remembers when he heard of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. Harry Truman was not a surprise as...

Robert L. Williams thinks it very important that museums and memorials commemorating World War 2 continue to tell the...

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

Robert Christie was in combat for a few weeks before his tank was hit. They had to bail out of their tank. He was not...

Leon Schafer is certain the war affected his life afterwards. Number one, he never left his wife. When he got home, he...

During the invasion of Southern France [Annotator's Note: Operation Dragoon, Provence, Southern France, 15 August 1944...

Irvin C. Klimas and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Thompson (DD-627)] gave support to the landing forces around...

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

Lionel Baxter trained on howitzers. They went through [Annotator's Note: training] in eight weeks because they were...

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

[Annotator's Note: There is a very loud humming noise throughout this clip.] When he hit the beach [Annotator's Note:...

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