Experience behind enemy lines

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Wayne Pierce and his regiment were moved to an airbase in the south of England in anticipation of the start of the...
Once Wayne Lebsack earned his jump wings, he was sent across the English Channel to an already secure Normandy [...
Gowan Duffy remembers that in between battles, his unit [Annotator’s Note: the 141st Field Artillery Battalion] would...
Having been shot down over France, James Armstrong was taken in by the French Resistance and was being kept in the town...
Robert Max was not going to participate in the forced march. His right foot, inflamed with trench foot or frostbite,...
Kenneth R. Williams [Annotator’s Note: a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot in the 355th Fighter Group, 354th...
Kenneth R. Williams [Annotator’s Note: a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot in the 355th Fighter Group, 354th...
Gerhard Franzky’s unit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters, 22nd Regiment, 10th SS Panzer Division "Frundsburg"] suffered...
For the first several months they were flying out of Bodney, they did not live on base. They lived in a hotel and were...
Isadore Bronstein was transported by train to Verviers, Belgium to a replacement depot or repple-depple. It was a big...
James White and the 103rd Infantry Division were transported by truck convoy deeper into France after arriving in...
Benjamin Carson found that evacuating Makin Island was far more difficult that arriving there. The tide worked against...
[Annotator's Note: Gilbert S. Shawn was a prisoner of war after his aircraft was shot down on 12 April 1944.] After...
Kenneth R. Williams [Annotator’s Note: a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot in the 355th Fighter Group, 354th...
[Annotator's Note: Glynn G. Raby, Jr. took part in the Battle of Brest, 7 August to 19 September 1944, Brest, France.]...
Charles Acker was in Bastogne [Annotator's Note: Bastogne, Belgium with the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st...
James Livaudais received replacements prior to the Battle of the Bulge. [Annotator’s Note: in December 1944] One...
There must have been 1,500 guns around Ploesti [Annotator's Note: Ploesti, Romania]. That was where they [Annotator's...
Lieutenant Babe Meeks informed William Garbo and the men of G Troop, 2nd Squadron, 112th Cavalry Regiment, that the he...
Lieutenant John Marr was assigned to guide Company C, 1st Battalion, 325th Glider Infantry Regiment in that company's...
Joseph Richard Bernardi, Senior [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the 509th Bombardment Squadron, 351st Bombardment Group,...
When Theodore Pavlovich was on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands], it was wet and rough. For...
Wayne Peer and his outfit [Annotator's Note: I...
Edward Shames met the chief of the Dutch Undeground, John Van Kuijk, during Operation Market Garden in September 1944....
Arthur Albertson was looking forward to going overseas. He wanted to go to Europe, not to the Pacific. He went to...
At one time in North Africa there was a big tank battle going on. Carl Peterson was up in the mountains and could see...
When Herman Pbert joined the resistance [Annotator's Note: Italian resistance movement, an umbrella term for the...
Roy Stewart and his unit [Annotator's Note: in the 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division] entered the "amphitheater...
[Annotators Note: segment begins with the interviewer asking Franklin Denius to describe his first moments in Normandy]...
George Sakato recalled that they took that hill then had to take a few others [Annotator's Note: during fighting in...
That was as close as Emmett Kaylor ever came to getting hit [Annotator's Note: during a Japanese attack in the...
Gerard V. Radice and the 7th Infantry Division left the Philippines to invade Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan...
Harry McKnight arrived at Sugar Loaf Hill [Annotator's Note: a part of the Japanese defensive line known as the Shuri...
Asked to describe the fighting in which he participated, Earl Conklin referred to his position with the mortars. The...
Samuel Jenkins does not remember hearing the fire fight in the next town over because of all the shelling in his...
Four days after arriving at Guadalcanal, H. Lloyd Wilkerson put his commanding officer on an evacuation flight out of...

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