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John Rogers found dug in tanks that were dispersed throughout [Annotator's Note: throughout Germany]. One time, they...
Arthur Staymates studied with the MPs [Annotator's Note: military police] prior to leading the guards during the...
Edward Bale spent the first night on Tarawa sleeping next to a disabled LVT [Annotator's Note: Landing Vehicle, Tracked...
A German force moved north out of Picauville toward Lieutenant John Marr's position and attacked in force with tanks...
Raymond Mason did his first flying in an L-4 [Annotator’s Note: Piper L-4 Grasshopper]. Mason saw barrage balloons when...
A lot of the small towns along Clyde Kenney's march were "butchered," and Germany was "pulverized" during that period...
John McConn and his outfit spent three weeks training to cross the Rhine River in boats. The first boat to cross with...
Herbert Stern and the 84th Infantry Division crossed the Rhine River [Annotator's Note: on 1 April 1945] and the Weser...
William Burrus went from New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] to Southampton, England [Annotator's Note: on...
For Robert Gorman, crossing the Roer River was a serious point in his combat experience. Both sides shelled heavily...
Archie Maltbie’s first mission from England was against a French railroad bridge. Several pilots missed the bridge but...
Robert Curl and his boat crew left the English port [Annotator's Note: Weymouth, England] at midnight on 6 June [...
James Weller enjoyed his time in England. He trained with his new M7 tank in Slapton Sands from February to May [...
David Olson landed on Utah Beach on D plus 1. Part of his command was on another ship, the Susan B. Anthony [Annotator...
William Earl Gast and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company A, 743rd Tank Battalion, 30th Infantry Division] were on a...
[Annotator's Note: Joseph Stefaniak was in Nottingham, England preparing for the Normandy invasion.] They loaded up...
David Roderick experienced a lot of shelling and artillery and snipers when he landed. D Day began at 6:30 in the...
[Annotator's Note: There is a loud hum throughout the interview.] Charles William "Tom" Clark was in a small village in...
Sam V. Abate thinks they [Annotator's Note: Reconnaissance Company, 634th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 1st Infantry...
Wayne McKinnon Gilmore went back overseas and joined the 3rd Marine Division while they were finishing up on Guam [...
Lewis E. Belcher [Annotator's Note: serving with Company B, 11th Tank Battalion, 10th Armored Division] was deployed...
Edgar L. McKay boarded the Queen Elizabeth [Annotator's Note: RMS Queen Elizabeth], which travelled alone. The ship was...
It took three weeks for John H. Price, Jr. to make the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, all the while zig-zagging to...
Daniel J. Lawler deployed to the Pacific in November 1943. He felt sufficiently trained. Training was hell, but he used...
In January [Annotator's Note: January 1944], James Roland Westbrook [Annotator's Note: in Company F, 2nd Battalion,...
Dominic Martello learned that when going fast in the sand, the wheel of the half-track could be turned, but the force...
Earl Dean Browning was on a gun crew in his company [Annotator's Note: Anti-Tank Company, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th...
Delbert Wombacher landed in Le Havre, France in 1944. They were to move as far into France as they could and set up...
Sterling Mace and his platoon rode to the assault beach at Peleliu in an Amtrak [Annotator's Note: Landing Vehicle,...
Norma Jean Ford Beard was born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania in June 1944. Her father was a B-24 pilot [Annotator's Note:...
Early life for Charles Radford was tough because of the Great Depression. He grew up in a family of eight including his...
Robert D. Maxwell was born in October 1920 in western Kansas. With the winds blowing the land away, the family headed...
John Rogers was born and raised in Terre Haute, Indiana. He went to college in Indiana then got a job as a recreation...
When Lutz Windisch pulled out of Normandy [Annotator's Note: following D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France...
Ernest Chauvin and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company M, 3rd Battalion, 272nd Infantry Regiment, 69th Infantry...
They [Annotator's Note: Bradford Clark Freeman and his fellow paratroopers in Company E, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute...

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