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[Annotator's Note: Can hear muffled chatter throughout this segment.] Monroe "Tex" Combs Monroe received orders to jump...

Leonard Gaj [Annotator’s Note: captured on D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944, while serving...

Edward Riedl played baseball in the 1930s. His goal was to be a professional baseball player. New Orleans [Annotator's...

Joseph Taliancich was born in Louisiana in 1920. His father came over from Yugoslavia and went into the oyster business...

Austeen Bice [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 300th Combat Engineer Battalion] landed in Glasgow, Scotland near the...

Melvin Munch would have been part of the invasion force for assaulting the Japanese home islands. The atomic bombs kept...

Elmo Bell's 1st Battalion commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Mark Alexander, was always worried about the business...

[Annotator's Note: On 13 July 1944, Dwain Luce and the 320th Glider Field Artillery Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division...

After receiving his draft notice, Edgar Cole went down on the appointed day and time. He was standing in a big room...

Charles R. Smith was a senior in high school on 8 December [Annotator's Note: 8 December 1941]. They were asked to go...

Alan K. Simpson was playing outside when his friend, Jackie Allen, came down to his house to share the news of the...

William Dabney notes that the explosive did not have to be activated before being hauled up with the balloon. They...

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