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

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

Jerry LaMura was sent to a hospital in Long Island [Annotator’s Note: Long Island, New York] and then to Washington D.C...

Leonard Gaj hit the ground quickly when he jumped [Annotator's Note: on D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy, France...

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

Gowan Duffy remembers the waters were still rough from the storm the day before. As they hit the shore [Annotator’s...

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

[Annotator's Note: Joseph Lesniewski joined Company E, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne...

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

Robert L. Williams' buddy Joseph Slosarczyk was in charge of the pigeons. In England, Joe was tasked with throwing...

Oscar Otto Martin remembered that on his first day in combat, they were scheduled to attack at two in the afternoon,...

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

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