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During the assault on the port city of Cherbourg, France, John Witmeyer fought through to the end of town after door to...

Carl Nygren had to go on a 25-mile march with a full pack. He saw some people pass out afterward. After 20 miles, the...

James Weller landed in North Africa on 9 November 1942 while the Vichy French were still in combat with the Americans...

Edward G. Willette was in Verviers, Belgium, and wrote home quite often. One of his letters described how, when the...

Floyd Dumas was injured at Salerno when a fragment from a hand grenade hit him. He was patched up and stayed on the...

Ralph F. Lafferty was shipped back home after being wounded. He departed through the port at Naples [Annotator's Note:...

Carlos V. Reed was born in December 1923 in Los Angeles, California. He was an only child. Before he was one year old,...

Henry Freedman and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] were loaded in "40 and 8" boxcars and were in a...

Robert Joseph Blatnik's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he captured three soldiers in Liege [...

Jacob Velfling, Jr. was born in Cadillac, Michigan in May 1926. Velfling played many sports in high school and had a...

After completing glider infantry and paratrooper training, Sydney Levit was selected to go to Citadel [Annotator's Note...

Thomas Michael Holt was born in July 1919 in Oak Ridge, North Carolina. His father was head of a military school. Most...

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