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John Raaen woke up the next morning [Annotator's Note: the morning of 7 June 1944 following the D-Day invasion the...

John Raaen and a portion of the 5th Ranger Battalion were detached and under the command of Sullivan [Annotator’s Note...

John Raaen landed after the first wave [Annotator's Note: on Omaha Beach on D-Day, 6 June 1944]. The first wave had...

John Raaen spent time in the hedgerow area of Normandy after Maisy [Annotator’s Note: Maisy was the location of a...

John Raaen reached the coastal road and the wide open field adjacent to it. The field was approximately 200 to 300...

John Raaen and the 5th Ranger Battalion was participating in the Saar Campaign when the Battle of the Bulge broke out...

John Raaen returned to the United States for recovery in early February [Annotator’s Note: February 1945] after being...

John Raaen dated a nurse at the General Hospital at Cherbourg. They enjoyed dancing and drinking champagne when they...

John Raaen saw a lot of smoke and heard a lot of noise from small arms fire from the right side. It was from WN70 which...

John Raaen and the men around him were ready to get on with the job that they were trained to do. They were tired of...

[Annotator's Note: Daniel Farley served in the Army with Company A, 5th Ranger Battalion.] Ranger training was hard....

After exiting the beach at Normandy, John Raaen and his men followed the hedgerows in case they would be fired upon....

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