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Estes, Bruce The Lost Battalion
Bruce Estes’ battalion [Annotator’s Note: 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division] was driving...
Blonder, Erwin The Lost Battalion and Going Home
Erwin Blonder remembers Marty Higgins [Annotator's Note: US Army Captain Martin J. Higgins] sending a sergeant and 35...
Hirsekorn, Fred The M4 Sherman Tank
Fred Hirsekorn started out as a gunner on an M4 Sherman medium tank. He had made PFC by the end of basic training. He...
Schmitt, Warren The Malmedy Massacre
[Annotators Note: Warren Schmitt was a forward observer in Battery B, 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion.]...
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 [...
Sakato, George The Medal of Honor
During the actions that led to George Sakato receiving the Medal of Honor, he wondered what he was doing here and why...
Coolidge, Charles The Medal of Honor and Combat Stories
Charles Coolidge took sheep into a minefield instead of sending men through it to be sure there were no mines. Early in...
Kerner, John The Medic’s Red Cross Badge
John Kerner was assigned close to the front in a battalion aid station [Annotator's Note: 110th Medical Battalion, 35th...
Field, Richard The Mediterranean
Richard Field was overseas for about 21 months. His son was born nine months after he returned. They sailed out in a...
Duffy, Gowan The Morning of D-Day
Gowan Duffy remembers around five in the morning [Annotator’s Note: on their way to D-Day, the Allied invasion of...
Ikari, Norman The Most Decorated Unit in the Army
Norman Ikari was in Camp Shelby when he was put into E Company. Senator Inouye was a buck sergeant squad leader. He was...
Lewis, Claude The Mountain Division
Claude L. Lewis kissed the ground when he returned to the States [Annotator’s Note: United States]. He had enough...
Foster, Robert The Navy, Pearl Harbor, and the Army
Robert E. Foster entered the Navy in November 1934. He was drafted [Annotator's Note: into the Army] in 1942. Foster...
Shenkle, George The Netherlands
George Shenkle [Annotator's Note: serving with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] was...
Reynolds, Harley The night of June 6th and morning of June 7th 1944
Harley Reynolds, through subsequent research, was able to find out what the German half track was doing there. The half...
Rendelman, Ed The Normandy Invasion
Ed Rendelman arrived in England after sailing from the United States in March 1944. The men knew there was a big build...
Biondo, Frank The Normandy Invasion
Frank Biondo was on deck crossing the English Channel for D-Day [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of Normandy, France...
Hurley, Wallace The Outpost
Wallace Hurley faced a division of white camouflaged German soldiers who approached the American lines. The Americans...
Bayuk, Rose The Pacific and War's End
Backing up to the time when Rose Bayuk first arrived in London [Annotator's Note: London, England], she relates how the...
Walter, Robert The people you meet at the front
[Annotators Note: Robert Walter was a platoon sergeant in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th...
Campbell, Clifford The Philippines
Clifford Campbell did not go ashore on Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippine Islands] until the island was secure...
Jennings, Edward The Philippines
Edward Bruce Jennings never saw so many planes bombing a place. The naval bombardment was terrible as well. They could...
Gertner, Gil The Philippines
Gil Gertner served in the 71st Joint Assault Signal Company (JASCO) [Annotator’s Note: specialized units which...
Jackson, James The Philippines
James Thomas Jackson [Annotator's Note: arrived in the Philippines after the Japanese surrendered in August 1945,...
Lopez, Lionel The Philippines
Lionel Lopez went to Leyte Island in the Philippines [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Leyte, 17 October to 26 December...
Grass, Philip The Philippines
Philip Grass remembers that a Japanese captain was killed the first day they were there [Annotator’s Note: referring to...
Jones, Harold The Philippines and Japanese Surrender
Harold Jones and his unit [Annotator's Note: 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne Division] went to Lipa [...
Tubach, James The Philippines and War's End
James "Jim" Tubach was assigned to an Army group [Annotator's Note: 96th Infantry Division] out in the hills looking...
Lopez, Lionel The Points System
Lionel Lopez did not lose any POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war]. They got paid for their work on the...
Kuwayama, Yeiichi "Kelly" The pressures of being a combat medic
Kelly Kuwayama landed in either May or June 1944 in Italy. They worked their way up the boot of Italy. When they were...
Labat, Ubert The Push into Germany
When the big push toward Berlin commenced, Ubert Labat says the Americans brought all the big guns up to the line, and...
Trindal, Wesley The recon patrol
[Annotators Note: Wesley Trindal served in the US Army as a rifleman in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry...
Whitaker, Fred The Rhine River
Fred Whitaker remembers the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes Counter...
Garbo, William The Ridge above Ormoc
As William Garbo and the men of G Troop, 2nd Squadron, 112th Cavalry Regiment, moved out along a mountain trail from...
Higgins, Gordon The Road to Italy
Gordon Higgins' unit [Annotator's Note: 2nd Battalion, 407th Infantry Regiment, 103rd Infantry Division] joined the...
Mabarac, Raymond The Role of a Human Being
Recalling 28 March 1945 when he went into Germany, Raymond Mabarac says he was on "recon" [Annotator's Note:...

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