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

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

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

Armando Galella's duties changed when he became battalion sergeant major, working at headquarters and answering only to...

Abe Milkis landed on Omaha Beach during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day. Rather than entering France as a...

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

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

Nicholas J. Zuras obtained binoculars in Weymouth [Annotator's Note: Weymouth, England]. The wooden decks of the boats...

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

Lorraine Doroff drove for the War Department [Annotator's Note: as a member of the Women's Army Corps; women's branch...

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

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

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