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Although Dominick Sgobbo was not the soldier with the longest tenure, he became a squad leader because he was the best...

Bastogne was very cold. There, Edward Shames' platoon mostly executed patrolling actions. Shames relates that his...

Norris Bucksell fired a gun for the first time on 8 May 1945, V-E Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day], and...

Leon Dixon was born in June 1918 in Batchelor, in the parish of Pointe Coupee [Annotator's Note: Louisiana]. It was...

[Annotator's Note: Vernon Squire was drafted into the Army in December 1942.] Squire was given a week off and then went...

Melbourne Sanford Courtney was born near Cynthiana, Kentucky in 1925. He lived on a family farm, and his memory of...

[Annotator's Note: There is a loud hissing noise throughout this clip.] Seymour Nussenbaum is like his mother who is a...

Fred Whitaker remembers some soldiers were decapitated because the Germans would put wires across the roads. They...

After the bridge [Annotator’s Note: Nijmegen Bridge] was secured, T. Moffatt Burriss and his outfit were moved to a...

Leon Hirsch was born in July 1927 in the Bronx in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York]. He had one...

Both Air Forces [Annotator's Note: the US Army Air Forces and the Royal Canadian Air Force] did a good job of...

For the remainder of the war Michael Cokinos was a company commander in the 83rd Infantry Division. He served as a...

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