Interactions with Allied troops

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Norman Sterrie thought he would be going home [Annotator's Note: he was a Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo plane pilot in...
Ernest "Ernie" Andrus left [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] on a Merchant Marine ship. Once they were...
Robert Taylor went on a patrol on a training site on Upolu, Samoa. His unit [Annotator's Note: Taylor served in the...
In 1942, Joseph Stefaniak and some friends got a three-day pass [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short...
Margaret Brewer Henry attended college from 1945 through 1949. She felt like she was well prepared because her...
Ryan O'Brien crashed on 10 December 1944. O'Brien had been sent to lead navigator school. He flew a lot in the lead...
Philip Whitman went overseas on a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship]. He went...
William Martin waited on a troop ship home. All of the airplanes were torn up. He flew a C-46 [Annotator's Note:...
Training in North Africa concentrated on mortar combat and night missions, according to Henry Baughman, and when the...
[Annotator's Note: Richard Klenoski was a navigator on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber in the 492nd...
The theater of conflict he was going to be assigned to after training made no difference to Donald Albert Carlson. You...
Albert Pultz Lochra, Jr. and his crew [Annotator's Note: 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air...
George Alaniz landed on the beach at Attu. [Annotator's Note: Alaniz was a rifleman in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 32nd...
Gerald Abbenhaus and his infantry unit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 385th Infantry Regiment, 76th...
Carey Eleser was a Navy Armed Guard radioman aboard the SS David B. Johnson. They left Charleston, South Carolina and...
After the Battle of the Ruhr Pocket, Seymour Reitman and his division [Annotator's Note: Reitman was a member of...
Prior to jumping on D-Day [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944], some of the fellas...
Philemon Andrews Saint Amant saw some graves of members of the German Army and some of them were Jewish. Saint Amant's...
William Burrus went from New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] to Southampton, England [Annotator's Note: on...
Jack Davis and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company D, 1st Battalion, 10th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division]...
Milton Muelder had been stationed in London, England until the Allied troops moved into France, after which he was...
Malcom Ernest was at Bataan [Annotator's Note: Bataan Peninsula, Luzon, Philippines] about four months [Annotator's...
In early April [Annotator's Note: April 1945], Matthew A. Reluga's Division [Annotator's Note: Reluga was a member of...
John Raaen saw an unbelievable number of ships on the morning of D-Day. There were thousands of ships all spaced apart...
D-Day [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944] was supposed to be on 5 June 1944. Burt...
By 1943, Mary Frances Dorothy Wood attended college, but was evacuated to Devon [Annotator's Note: Devon, England]....
Reuben Weiner enlisted as a photographer in the 165th Signal Photographic Company. He was assigned to the 4th Infantry...
Charlie Lomax [Annotator's Note: a Naval officer in a special communications task force in the Naval Amphibious Forces...
William Earl Gast and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company A, 743rd Tank Battalion, 30th Infantry Division] were on a...
William "Bill" Parker arrived in southern England where he and other soldiers began preparing for a land invasion....
Alfred Anthony Alvarez ended up on a LCVP [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel or LCVP; also known as...
[Annotator's Note: Joseph Stefaniak was in Nottingham, England preparing for the Normandy invasion.] They loaded up...
In preparation for the invasion of Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June...
On 6 June 1944, Gale Ammerman flew out of Membury [Annotator's Note: Royal Air Force Membury, Lambourn, England] from...
Leonard Jindra heard many rumors while training in England. In the 29th [Annotator's Note: Jindra was a member of...
Harper Harvey Coleman did not think much about the delay for the weather [Annotator's Note: the 5 June 1944 delay for D...

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