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

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

Joseph Otho Goble was born near Statesville, North Carolina in September 1914. He, along with his four siblings, grew...

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

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

Gerald West returned to the United States and went to a camp on Catalina island. There, the Marine Corps was training...

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

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

Charles Balaza was in Manila Bay on a minesweeper during the morning of the Pearl Harbor attack. He was returning to...

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

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

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

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