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When Harold Lightell arrived off the beaches of Normandy, alarms sounded on his ship. The 600 troops on the ship were...

Armiger Jagoe was born in April 1921 in Okolona, Mississippi and moved to Gulfport, Mississippi when he was two years...

Madeleine Peters remembers the Allies landing in France [Annotator's Note: The Normandy D-Day invasion began the...

Hillman James Prestridge was serving in a field artillery unit [Annotator's Note: when he landed with the first wave at...

President Harry S. Truman was convinced to come to the west coast [Annotators Note: to award Hawk with the Medal of...

Anne Levy began volunteering at The National WWII Museum after Katrina [Annotator’s Note: Hurricane Katrina struck New...

Arthur Jackson was awarded the Medal of Honor on 5 October 1945 during the Nimitz Day celebration in Washington D.C....

Second Lieutenant Irma Darphin, a nurse in the US Army, docked in Liverpool, England and went to Bishop's Lydia,...

Daniel Altman’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when his friend was shot on the beach of Normandy [...

Frank Golemi was in France when the war ended. He flew an aircraft back to the United States. He thought he was going...

Kenneth Theis completed midshipman training in two months and was commissioned an ensign in the Navy in November 1943....

Jerry LaMura remembers hitting the beaches in Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy,...

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