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Oliver, Byron Early Life and Becoming a Marine
Bryon Carl Oliver was born in July 1922 in Buffalo, New York. As a child, he played sports including skiing, baseball and softball, and football.
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Oliver, Byron Life After the War and Reflections
After being discharged from the Marine Corps, Bryon Oliver returned home.
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Oliver, Byron Life on Guam
Bryon Oliver boarded a ship in Norfolk, Virginia.
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Ollar, Vernon Close Call in Dillingen
[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks slowly and pauses several times throughout segment.] After the combat at the Siegfried Line [Annotator's
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Ollar, Vernon Diverse Army Training
[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks slowly and pauses several times throughout segment.] Vernon Ollar was inducted at Fort Dodge, Iowa where he c
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Ollar, Vernon Hard Life as a Young Boy
Vernon Ollar was born in July 1926 in Moline, Illinois and grew up in nearby Rock Island, Illinois as an only child.
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Ollar, Vernon Landing on Omaha Beach
[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks slowly and pauses several times throughout segment.] Vernon Ollar was assigned as a gunner in the 81st Chemic
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Ollar, Vernon Mortar Combat in Hedgerows and Saint-Lô
[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks slowly and pauses several times throughout segment.] Vernon Ollar participated in the amphibious invasion of
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Ollar, Vernon Moving through France
[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks slowly and pauses several times throughout segment.] Assigned as a gunner in the 81st Chemical Mortar Battali
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Ollar, Vernon Preparing for D-Day
[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks slowly and pauses several times throughout segment.] Vernon Ollar was assigned to the 81st Chemical Mortar Ba
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Ollar, Vernon Reflections on the War
Vernon Ollar’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was D-Day [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June
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Ollar, Vernon War’s End and Postwar
[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks slowly and pauses several times throughout segment.] Before the Germans officially surrendered, Vernon Ollar’