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

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...

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

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

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

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

Robert W. McDonald [Annotator's Note: serving in the US Eighth Air Force] pulled detail one night as the kitchen ran 24...

Leisey recalls having to do sponge ball therapy so he could build up the strength up in his hand. He has problems...

Hersey Goodwin is glad his daughter called [Annotator's Note: for this interview]. He does not mind discussing it at...

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

The division [Annotator's Note: 31st Infantry Division] was then transferred to the island of Morotai [Annotator's Note...

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