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Baumgarten, Harold Loading Up and Crossing the English Channel
On 23 May 1944, Harold Baumgarten was transferred, along with Robert Palmer, to Company B [Annotator's Note: Company B, 1st Battalion, 116th I
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Baumgarten, Harold Plastic Surgery and Going Home
Harold Baumgarten was released from the Royal Navy hospital [Annotator's Note: in Portsmouth, England] around 4 July 1944 and taken to the 250
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Baumgarten, Harold Preparing for D-Day
In late April [Annotator's Note: April 1944], they [Annotator's Note: Harold Baumgarten and the rest of the 29th Infantry Division] pract
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Baumgarten, Harold Severely Wounded but Continuing to Fight
Harold Baumgarten continues his account of what he did on D-Day at Dog Green Sector [Annotator's Note: Normandy, France on 6 June 1944].
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Baumgarten, Harold Talking About D-Day and Educating Future Generations
Harold Baumgarten relives what he was thinking while he was in his landing craft coming up to Omaha Beach.
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Baumgarten, Harold Two Skirmishes and Being Hit Again
Harold Baumgarten and the men he was with engaged about five Germans at a farm house on the bluff. He killed one of the German soldiers.
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Baxter, Lionel Basic Training to Europe
Lionel Baxter trained on howitzers. They went through [Annotator's Note: training] in eight weeks because they were needed in Europe.
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Baxter, Lionel Buchenwald and Returning Home
Lionel Baxter went through an opening in a huge gate [Annotator's Note: at the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany] and could s
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Baxter, Lionel German Prisoners
Lionel Baxter says they [Annotator's Note: the German Army] had some fast-moving vehicles and had the 88s [Annotator's Note: German 88mm
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Baxter, Lionel Guard Duty at Buchenwald
The worst thing [Annotator's Note: about the war] for Lionel Baxter was that after the war was over, he was a guard at Buchenwald [Annotator
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Baxter, Lionel Interactions with Civilians
Lionel Baxter and his unit [Annotator's Note: Battery A, 941st Field Artillery Battalion] went through the outskirts of Paris [Annotator'
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Baxter, Lionel Military Training and Field Life
Lionel Baxter was trained to handle ammunition [Annotator's Note: as part of a gun crew in Battery A, 941st Field Artillery Battalion].