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Robert Kean was born in August 1922 in Long Island [Annotator’s Note: Long Island, New York]. He grew up in New York...

John Scott Campbell's duties were complicated but simple. On a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly...

Russell Van Matre enlisted in the US Army in December 1942. For the year between then and Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

Bernard Hillenbrand did not have difficulty adjusting to civilian life and never had bad dreams, battlefield fatigue,...

Lawrence Angst was born in July 1923 in Barberton, Ohio. His mother and father were young and struggled through the...

Gerald Auerbach's most memorable experience of Word War 2 was the first incendiary raid over Tokyo [Annotator's Note:...

Warren William "Bill" Allen, Junior was born in January 1924 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He grew up with two younger...

When the war ended in Europe, Homer Cole was sent to Alexandria, Louisiana to begin training on B-29s [Annotator's Note...

Joseph Dean Reilly was part of the first replacements to join the 501st [Annotator's Note: Headquarters, 3rd Battalion...

[Annotator’s Note: At the beginning of the segment, the interviewer explains to interviewee how the interview will run...

When Raymond VanDuzer first went into the hedgerows [Annotator's Note: the hedgerows of Normandy] he mixed some drinks...

As the Germans retreated, they laid mines along the roads. John Kerner put sandbags on the floors of the jeeps. They...

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