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Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld was sent to basic training anticipating that he would join the Air Corps. Instead he...

Hillman James Prestridge partook in the biggest operation ever [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of...

After three months on the Normandy beachhead, John Edward Pierce [Annotator's Note: with Company A, 149th Engineer...

Kenneth Theis completed midshipman training in two months and was commissioned an ensign in the Navy in November 1943....

Edward Riedl was waiting for his girlfriend to come out of her house when he was told Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

Rosamund Naylor was at home listening to the radio when she heard the speech about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Day...

Eduardo Alberto Peniche Carvajal recalled his first time jumping out of the plane was exciting and apprehensive....

Henry Langrehr fought his way through a church yard [Annotator's Note: in Sainte-Mère-Église, France on D-Day, 6 June...

Delbert Franklin Hackman [Annotator's Note: a mechanic with Headquarters Battery, 391st Armored Field Artillery...

Frank Dolsen, [Annotator's Note: with the 349th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] became a...

[Annotator's Note: Can hear muffled chatter throughout this segment.] Monroe "Tex" Combs Monroe received orders to jump...

John Pogue experienced his first combat in the Ardennes at an unknown location. He went in by glider. His glider and a...

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