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Reuben Weiner was sent on a run with the 105th Infantry Division. He stayed in a two-story building with a photo...
George Shenkle [Annotator's Note: serving with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] had never...
After recovering from his wounds, John Caponigro found out that his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion...
When the troops' Christmas packages were arriving in 1944, Gordon Higgins' unit [Annotator's Note: 2nd Battalion, 407th...
Samuel Lombardo gave Captain Marsh the orders and moved forward into the action. [Annotator's Note: Even though...
Morris Eugene Day's first day on the line was 13 December 1944. The Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of...
Sidney LaPook heard that things were getting rough up there [Annotator's Note: in the Ardennes Forest] and that Bastone...
Peter Harry fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Snow and winter began to set in and then the Battle of the Bulge began....
Joseph Simpson arrived in La Havre, France after crossing the English Channel. Those in charge decided the troops...
Russell Hoff and the 106th Infantry Division had been sent to the front as relief for the 2nd Infantry Division, which...
On 13 December [Annotator's Note: 13 December 1944], Seymour Reitman's regiment [Annotator's Note: Reitman served as a...
Arthur Staymates was told by Hermann Göring that Hitler ordered 60,000 troops from the Eastern [Annotator's Note:...
During the Battle of the Bulge, glider infantryman Clinton Riddle rode into battle on a tank during the American...
Raymond Burchell walked from Holland back to France. They came upon a British motor pool who transported the men back....
[Annotator's Note: Wynn Bauer was assigned to the 36th Armored Infantry Battalion, 3rd Armored Division.] He was in...
At 0530 in the morning of 16 December 1944, they were shelled until daybreak then the German guns stopped. John M....
William Pena recalls the situation in the Ardennes before the Germans arrived, how they laid tripwires and mines. They...
James W. Phillips thought that all of the men in his unit [Annotator's Note: 313th Field Artillery Battalion, 80th...
Melvin Linkous and his company [Annotator's Note: Cannon Company, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division] were...
Every morning, Carl Light and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company C, 61st Armored Infantry Battalion, 10th Armored...
William Splichal remembers the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes Counter...
Henry Freedman received an additional month of training in England prior to shipping out to France. He moved across...
Robert Nichols Cresswell was a participant [Annotator’s Note: as a truck driver with the 291st Engineer Combat...
When Charles Slay joined the military he was assigned to Cannon Company [Annotator's Note: Cannon Company, 415th...
Tom Quigley remembers how one night before they blew the pillboxes, he and some other men were watching what they...
After Normandy, Robert G. Frey and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division]...
Walter Gaterman joined his unit [Annotator's Note: Company C, 1st Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry...
Frank Hartzell advanced through the ranks as squad and then platoon leader as casualties mounted during the Battle of...
Herbert W. Ridyard [Annotator's Note: as a member of Company H, 2nd Battalion, 301st Infantry Regiment, 94th Infantry...
Wayne Peer and his outfit [Annotator's Note: I...
They landed at Liverpool, England then traveled from there to Tidworth. They were there for three weeks and Charles...
At the time, Roger Bowers had never considered the idea of being captured. On 16 December 1944, right after daybreak,...
Frank Patti's division [Annotator's Note: Patti was a member of Company C, 1st Battalion, 333rd Infantry Regiment, 84th...
Alexander Marsh was in charge of three 57mm anti-tank guns and a platoon of 20 to 25 men. At night he could hear the...
The weather in Europe during December 1944 was bad, according to James Pritchett's account, and the air space around...
Marion Bahlinger remembered that during the lead up to the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge...

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