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Compton, Bryan Sicily to Anzio
For two or three days, the Germans would stop, shoot at the American troops and then run [Annotator's Note: during the fighting in Sicily, Ita
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Compton, Bryan The March to Rome
Jumping out [Annotator's Note: breaking out of the Anzio, Italy beachhead] on 4 June 1944, Bryan Compton's division [Annotator's Not
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Compton, Lynn "Buck" Segment 1
Lynn Compton goes by the nickname Buck. Compton was born and raised in Los Angeles. He went to high school and then to UCLA for college.
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Compton, Lynn "Buck" Segment 10
Lynn Compton had his orders changed so he could play baseball in Paris.
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Compton, Lynn "Buck" Segment 11
Lynn Compton remembers the death of Robert Kennedy.
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Compton, Lynn "Buck" Segment 12
Lynn Compton does not remember when he went back to Normandy for the first time but realized war is fought on normal grounds.
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Compton, Lynn "Buck" Segment 2
Lynn Compoton had just played football against USC when Pearl Harbor was bombed.
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Compton, Lynn "Buck" Segment 3
Lynn Compton went to England on the Queen Elizabeth ship with thousands of troops.
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Compton, Lynn "Buck" Segment 4
Lynn Compton was not told about the upcoming invasion while he was in Holborn.
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Compton, Lynn "Buck" Segment 5
The first person Lynn Compton met up with after the jump into Normandy was Winters [Annotators Note: Richard Winters].
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Compton, Lynn "Buck" Segment 6
Lynn Compton remembers going through Carentan without any resistance.
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Compton, Lynn "Buck" Segment 7
Lynn Compton remembers Doc Roe [Annotators Note: Company E medic Eugene Roe] as the medic who worked on him when he was wounded.