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When they finally stopped they were a couple feet away from a hut. The next morning there were people working on the...

Josephine Pescatore got to the evacuation hospital with nothing but a small handbag. She had no supplies like a mess...

Jack Linscott was 16 years old when the war broke out. He did not know there was something going on in the Pacific. The...

In the first days of June 1944, W. P. “Bill” Allen assigned to the USS LST-523 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank]...

[Annotator's Note: Leslie Cruise continuously refers to a book that he has on his lap.] Leslie Cruise remarks that...

[Annotator's Note: Roswell Weil was assigned to the 68th Quartermaster Depot near Liverpool, England to prepare for the...

[Annotator's Note: Gilbert S. Shawn was a prisoner of war after his aircraft was shot down on 12 April 1944.] After...

William C. Smith, Junior [Annotator's Note: a forward observer with the 1st Infantry Division] was looking for a pile...

Charles White went through Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944]....

Jules Desloge Brown was born in 1923 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His father was a colonel in the cavalry of the Army....

When he landed in Normandy with Battery A, 29th Field Artillery Battalion [Annotator's Note: Battery A, 29th Field...

Joseph Kagan remembers the ship [Annotator’s Note: going overseas] was crowded. He was an officer and had a room to...

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