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Stories of the Second World War

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Stories of the Second World War

Stories of heroism during the Second World War

Discover the significance of the stories from the veterans of WW2. Inspired by a visit to Normandy in 1999, my mission has been to create a platform that pays tribute to their legacy and heroism. This collection of real stories, serves as an invaluable educational resource, shedding light on the profound impact of the war on those who lived through it.

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Albert Edward Frampton

Albert Edward Frampton

Worcestershire Regiment

Over the last few years I've been peicing together the movements of my Great Uncle from where he boarded the SS Canterb…

Nancy Ewing Munro

Nancy Ewing Munro

6th Service Command

Prelude to Serving Nancy Ewing was born near Chicago in Libertyville, Illinois in 1920. Her father was the CEO of a la…

Frank Hughes

Frank Hughes

Glider Pilot Regiment

Wolfheze Frank, at the age of 19, moved from Wolfheze east towards Arnhem, passing Hartenstein. En route there was a D…

Walter Heginbotham

Walter Heginbotham

Royal Engineers

Walter Heginbotham was born on May 18, 1920 and enlisted on August 2, 1940 in the Army as a Sapper in the Royal E…

George Rider

George Rider

Ox and Bucks Light Infantry

My lovely Grandad, Company Sergeant Major (CSM) George Rider, was born in Hackney, East London in 1907. He was the elde…

Reg Charles

Reg Charles

Ox and Bucks Light Infantry

Reg’s desire and life time commitment to help and educate other’s began in 1934 when he helped to wire the Parish Churc…

Herbert James Watts

Herbert James Watts

Ox and Bucks Light Infantry

Dad was born in Bristol and joined the Home Guard at the outbreak of the war. He was then enlisted into the Devonshire…

Warner Albert Borgeld

Warner Albert Borgeld

Royal Dutch Medical Officer

This story is in English and In Dutch My parents married in 1937, he was 31 years old and my mother 26 years old. Beca…

David Joseph Marquard

David Joseph Marquard

4th Infantry Division

July 27, 1944 France Dear Dick and Sis: This letter was held up until you had heard of the sad news of Dave. Your typ…

Ralph Augustus Jewell

Ralph Augustus Jewell

106th Cavalry Regiment

The Polo and Horseman Years In 1939, Ralph was playing polo and perhaps for a few years prior to 1939 as well. On Apr…

Owen Arthur Hillier

Owen Arthur Hillier

Devonshire Regiment

Before the war he lived in Grays, Essex in the south of the UK. He joined the reservist wartime regiment, the 12th Devo…

George M. Hobgood

George M. Hobgood

3rd Armored Division

Dad was a race car mechanic prior to the war. He was exempted from serving due to a medical issue but got it overturned…

Fritz Engelbert

Fritz Engelbert

Panzer Lehr Division

Being born in 1925 I was drafted to the German Wehrmacht in 1943. Thereby, at the age of 18, I became a soldier of the…

Louis C. Graziano

Louis C. Graziano

102nd Field Artillery Battalion

Louis C. Graziano was born on February 6, 1923, in East Aurora, New York. He entered active service on January 22, 1943…

Eric Henry McIntyre

Eric Henry McIntyre

1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry

My uncle, Eric Henry McIntyre was a sergeant in the Northamptonshire Yeomanry - Tank Regiment, he crossed on D + 6 (Jun…

Frank Ashleigh

Frank Ashleigh

Glider Pilot Regiment

Frank Ashleigh was born on the 23rd December 1924 in Collingwood Street, east London, a true Cockney. The family, mothe…

Thomas C. Cook

Thomas C. Cook

29th Infantry Division

Thomas C. Cook born in Cameron, Clinton County, Missouri, USA on November 5, 1923 was 20 years old when we he was kille…

Donald Cook Blackett

Donald Cook Blackett

9th Field Ambulance RAMC

At the time of his attestation, Donald Blackett was living with his parents in Gosforth, Newcastle-on-Tyne. He was work…

George Hollox

George Hollox

The Royal Norfolk Regiment

My mums cousin Lance Sergeant George Alfred Hollox of Wormegay, Norfolk was killed in action on D-Day. The son of James…

Sidney John Bruton

Sidney John Bruton

Kings Shropshire Light Infantry

My Dad is Sidney John Bruton. In 1941 he joined the Somerset Light Infantry at the age of 30. Just before the Normandy…

Reginald Saych

Reginald Saych

He was one of the first of Montgomery troops who landed on Sword Beach in 1944. Operation brake out was to circular nav…

Jack Pinder

Jack Pinder

No.47 (Royal Marine) Commando

Operation Neptune, famously known as D-Day, was the inaugural mission of No.47 (Royal Marine) Commando. On 6th June 194…

John A. Rogers

John A. Rogers

Royal Engineers

My father was John Arthur Rogers, born Forty Acre Lane, Canning Town in May 1924. He went to Rosetta school in Custom H…

Ralph Wilson

Ralph Wilson

Royal Pioneer Corps

Ralph Wilson came from Middle Rainton County Durham. He was conscripted into the army in 1939, and there joined the Roy…

John Charles Harvey

John Charles Harvey

Royal Berkshire Regiment

John enlisted at Brock Barracks at the age of 14. He served in Egypt, India, and the Sudan was sent to France with the…

Kenneth William Branston

Kenneth William Branston

591 (Antrim) Parachute Squadron

Lance Corporal Kenneth William Branston, son of William Pettifer Branston and Louie Branston of Scunthorpe in Lincolnsh…

Frederick Harvey

Frederick Harvey

Royal Army Service Corps

On the 2nd January 1940 Frederick enlisted in the army, and as he was able to drive was assigned to the Royal Army Serv…

James Alan Davies

James Alan Davies

British Royal Navy

This is a picture of my late father James Alan Davies, also known as Blodwyn due to his Welsh roots. He actually told a…

James E. Fulton

James E. Fulton

James E. Fulton was only 20 years of age when he hit Normandy beach between Omaha and Utah. He joined the US army at 17…

Joseph Percival Peppett

Joseph Percival Peppett

15th (Scottish) Infantry Division

My father, Joseph Percival Peppett, was born on 8th October 1918 and he enlisted the army on 15th September 1939. He go…

Frank D. Murphy

Frank D. Murphy

During the war Frank DeSales Murphy was a member of the US Army Air Forces and graduated from the navigation school at…

Henry Joseph Lingg Jr.

Henry Joseph Lingg Jr.

Henry 'Hank' Joseph Lingg Jr. the son of mother Frances Juliette Cole and father Henry Joseph Lingg, Sr. was born Novem…

Jack E. Ammons

Jack E. Ammons

90th Infantry Division

This story begins on December 4th, 1944. General Patton’s Third Army, including Jack Ammons’ 90th Infantry Division, ha…

Frederick W. Johnson

Frederick W. Johnson

1st Airborne Division

My Dad enlisted In the Anti Aircraft Battery Territorial Army in 1938 he was 17 years old he lied about his age. As a G…

George Sands

George Sands

51st Highlanders Division

26th October found us riding into action atop Sherman tanks towards Vught. We were delayed at the start line due to the…

Alvin Ungerleider

Alvin Ungerleider

29th Infantry Division

He had landed with the 115th Regiment on D-Day, fought in the Battle for Brest and across France, Belgium and into Germ…

Guy C. Shoaf

Guy C. Shoaf

Guy Claude Shoaf was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania on 3 March 1917. He was the son of Aldwin Clyde Shoaf and Mabel D…

Stanislaw Pleszynski

Stanislaw Pleszynski

1st Independent Polish Parachute Brigade

Stanislaw Pleszynski was born on May 6, 1918 in the town of Puzniki. He grew up in a family with father, mother and thr…

Raymond Nielsen

Raymond Nielsen

7th Infantry Division

TSGT Ray Nielsen enlisted in the Army in December of 1936. His Infantry was transferred to Fort Ord California in 1940…

Grover Dobson

Grover Dobson

735th Tank Battalion

My Dad, Grover Dobson was on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day (+1). This June will be the 60th Anniversary of D-Day!&nb…

Roland Fischer

Roland Fischer

275th Infantry Division

Roland Fisher, born in 1926, was a soldier in the German Wehrmacht. He started out his military career in the "Arbeitsd…

Thomas J. Halbert

Thomas J. Halbert

Canadian Scottish Regiment, 3rd ID

We moved into the outskirts of Deventer early in the morning of the attack. I remember we took over a vacant house and…

Mervyn Sydney Kersh

Mervyn Sydney Kersh

21st Army Group GHQ LOC

Tillie was also born in the East End of London, but moved when she was three or four to Canterbury. She went to college…

Daan van de Velde

Daan van de Velde

Prinses Irene Brigade

Prinses Irene Brigade veteran David “Daan of Daaf” (In the UK they invariably called him "Denny") van de Velde was born…

David Ward

David Ward

Royal Canadian Army Service Corps

My name is David Ward. I joined the army when I was 18 years old. I joined up on the 4th of September of 1939. And then…

Richard R. Seibel

Richard R. Seibel

United States Third Army

I had sent a reconnaissance out on patrol and they ran across this concentration camp, Mauthausen, and they radioed in…

John Nasea Jr.

John Nasea Jr.

101st Airborne Division

Out of high school in June of ‘40, I joined Ford Motor Co. as an apprentice tool maker in Feb. ‘41. (Two weeks before t…

Thomas Stafford

Thomas Stafford

87th Infantry Division

Thomas (Tom) Stafford was born in Washington, DC (June 1923) and raised in Petersburg, VA (Colonial Heights) where he l…

Calvin G. Carrier

Calvin G. Carrier

1st Infantry Division

My thoughts went back to my mom and sisters and how proud my dad would have been if he had lived to see his son fightin…

Pietro J. Buongiorno

Pietro J. Buongiorno

3rd Infantry Divison

I joined the Third Division in Southern France about Feb 4th, 1945 as a replacement together with three other GI 's. We…

Clayton R. Byrd

Clayton R. Byrd

94th Infantry Division

During the night of January 19, the Company L front was attacked by overpowering forces. Casualties included a large nu…

George H. Leidenheimer, Jr.

George H. Leidenheimer, Jr.

82nd Airborne Division

We emplaned on the evening of June 5th. The air armada flew into the Atlantic to a rendezvous radio signal on a submari…

Glen Louis Nesmith

Glen Louis Nesmith

101st Airborne Division

Glen Louis Nesmith was born in small town in northern Kansas. After having being turned down by the Air Force, Marines…

Brian Guy

Brian Guy

Third British Infantry Division "Monty's Ironsides"

Poh! My word! It's all such a long time ago now, but for many of us, the memories remain as though it were yesterday. B…

Herbert Henry Haddrell

Herbert Henry Haddrell

43rd Wessex Division

Herbert Henry Haddrell was born on 27th March 1925 at Bristol General Hospital, Guinea Street, the son of Thomas and Ge…

Glen A. Derber

Glen A. Derber

101st Airborne Division

On the other side in the city of Nijmegen a Limey convoy of trucks waited for us (we were still attached to the British…

Norris E. Green

Norris E. Green

Army Corps of Engineers

I am now (2005) 84 years old. I remember some things on that Day in Normandy, but some things are a little fuzzy…

Jack Agnew

Jack Agnew

101st Airborne Division

Jack Agnew was part of the Filthy Thirteen a name given to an elite unit within the ranks of the Headquarters Company…

George R. Hewitt

George R. Hewitt

101st Airborne Division

My first recollections of war were as an eighth grader in a small Illinois town 100 miles west of Chicago. By this time…

Joseph L. Begin

Joseph L. Begin

28th Infantry Division

As a 17yrs old Pfc in Co F 103rd Engineer Regiment an element of the 28th Infantry Division Joseph L. Begin was bo…

George Bush

George Bush

The Cheshire Regiment

At the start of the war the 2nd Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment was mobilised and sent to France where it joined the…

Walter Lewis Hendrix

Walter Lewis Hendrix

101st Airborne Division

My father was Sgt. Walter L. Hendrix, E Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. It is my u…

Eugene W. Luciano

Eugene W. Luciano

4th Armored Division

I am Eugene William “Lucky” Luciano, Serial No. 31048909, born in Torrington, Connecticut on April 20, 1916. I was a Te…

Frank William Kosman

Frank William Kosman

79th Infantry Division

My father Corporal T/5 Frank William Kosman served in WWII as a Radio Operator for the 904th Field Artillery Battalion…

Elias Sterio

Elias Sterio

Durham Light Infantry

The letter here below was delivered to Mrs Bridget Sterio, Elias' wife on June 22nd 1944. Elias Sterio was born in Swan…

Noble C. May

Noble C. May

3rd Armored Division "Spearhead"

My father, Sgt. Noble C. May, " Butch" was a tank and truck mechanic in the 3rd Armored Division in World War II. No, h…

Walter L. Arnold

Walter L. Arnold

83rd Infantry Division

I am Walter L. Arnold. I was born in Garrard County, KY in a little village called Bryantsville. I was born on May 25…

Marcus Dillard

Marcus Dillard

4th Infantry Division

If you take a look at my picture, let me tell you do not put the chin strap on your jaw like that in combat. That was j…

Dusty Rhoads

Dusty Rhoads

Engineer Special Brigade

Date of birth: March 25, 1922 Place of birth: Clovis New Mexico Schools: Elementary and High School 1927 to 1939 Farmin…

Charles "Chuck" R. Stout

Charles "Chuck" R. Stout

87th Infantry Division

I was a member of Company A, 345th Infantry Regiment, 87th Infantry Division. I joined the division around April 1, 194…

John Lee Eubanks

John Lee Eubanks

101st Airborne Division

John Lee Eubanks was born on December 23, 1920, in Hancock, Georgia, his father, Lucious, was 32 and his mother, Laura…

Walter Neton

Walter Neton

101st Airborne Division

My Grandpa enlisted in 1942 at the age of 35 because he was a true passionate American and wanted to serve his country…

Jess E. Weiss

Jess E. Weiss

1st Infantry Division

Through North Africa, Sicily, Omaha Beach, France and Germany, you and I were inseparable foxhole buddies. My hard Bon…

Rocco J. Moretto

Rocco J. Moretto

1st Infantry Division

"My division was out of contact from enemy fire for only 6 days during our eleven months and two days of combat spanned…

Kenneth Cordry

Kenneth Cordry

101st Airborne Division

I was drafted in February 1943 and inducted into the army in February of 1943 and went to Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas for p…

Ensign Don Irwin

Ensign Don Irwin

United States Navy

All these years have not dimmed my memory of that fateful June 6th day. Many of the happenings are seared into my mind…

Jake Gabriel

Jake Gabriel

29th Infantry Division

This is the story of my uncle, Private Jake Gabriel. His body lays to rest at the Brittany American Cemetary in St. Jam…

Irving Greenberg

Irving Greenberg

9th Airforce Airborne Engineers

My husband was D-Day plus 30 and spent the entire war in Europe. He participated in 3 battles in Normandy and was attac…

Robert Loomis

Robert Loomis

England, 1944 D Company of the 87th Chemical Mortar Battalion sailed to England in April, 1944 on the "Queen Elizabeth…

Cleve T. Martin

Cleve T. Martin

United States Navy

Cleve "T." Martin Jr. known to his family as "Jack," was born at his farm home in Jackson County, Kansas in 1920. His a…

Henry Carl Strecker

Henry Carl Strecker

4th Infantry Division

Henry Carl Strecker was beginning his sophomore year of high school at Mt. Healthy. when his days of youthful scouting…

E. C. Woodward

E. C. Woodward

United States Navy

I joined the navy while still in high school in Minnesota. It seemed to me they took too long to call me up so I signed…

Robert G. HIlton

Robert G. HIlton

101st Airborne Division

Robert Goodale Hilton was born on October 10th, 1922 in Ogden, Utah of Weber County. His father was Lalovi (pronounced…

Joseph P. Vaghi Jr.

Joseph P. Vaghi Jr.

United States Navy

Joseph Vaghi was born in Bethel, Connecticut on June 27, 1920, one of nine children born to Italian immigrants. His fat…

Harold Rosenberg

Harold Rosenberg

29th Infantry Division

It is not easy to conjure up combat events. The vast majority of active combatants involved in the 'killing' fields hav…

Joe Kennith Dixon

Joe Kennith Dixon

101st Airborne Division

On Friday March 13, 1942 I was inducted into the army at Camp Beauregard, LA. This was an old army camp built in World…

Robert R. Chapman

Robert R. Chapman

93rd Signal Brigade

I was a radio operator assigned to the 56th Signal Battalion. Our base in England was located at a place called Norton…

Parke G. Hoover

Parke G. Hoover

102nd Infantry Division

I served in the European Theater - We landed at Cherbourg and I think were the first troop ship to land after that port…

Gene Massone

Gene Massone

My name is Gene Massone once of the 296th Engineer (combat) Battalion of the First Army consisting of about 900 men att…

Erminio Calderan

Erminio Calderan

101st Airborne Division

I volunteered for the Parachute Infantry July 17th 1942. After Jump School I was assigned to the 501st Parachute Infant…

Felix A. Cizewski

Felix A. Cizewski

45th Infantry Division

My late father, Felix A. Cizewski, was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1918. He was drafted in 1942 and was sent to Glasgo…

James Haahr

James Haahr

26th "Yankee" Infantry Division

I entered the US Army in April 1944 at the age of 18, had basic infantry training at Camp Roberts, California, was then…

Paul "Frenchy" Lamoureux

Paul "Frenchy" Lamoureux

101st Airborne Division

"Frenchy" as he was known in Easy Company was from North Smithfield, Rhode Island. Frenchy was the youngest of thirteen…

Roy Emerson Pickel

Roy Emerson Pickel

101st Airborne Division

I was born May 22nd 1922 in Rocksborough, Pennsylvania and raised in Philadelphia. I enlisted as a paratrooper at the a…

Cleo Franklin Shoultz

Cleo Franklin Shoultz

86th Infantry Division

At 1600 on April 5, General Melasky was notified by 15the Army, that the 86th Division had been assigned to the XVIII A…

Fred Scamaroni (Severi)

Fred Scamaroni (Severi)

Free French Forces

Fred Scamaroni was head of the cabinet of the prefect of Calvados at the time of the declaration of war. Assigned to hi…

Willard J. Barney Jr.

Willard J. Barney Jr.

29th Infantry Division

It was cold. Bitter, bitter cold. The day was December 24, 1944, and I remember how cold it was even now 55 years later…

Lester Leonard McLean

Lester Leonard McLean

Engineer Special Brigade

Lester Leonard McLean, my grandfather, was a supply sergeant in the U. S. Army, 618th Ordnance Ammunition Company, 6th…

George Luz

George Luz

101st Airborne Division

England, Upon returning to his tent in Aldbourne England, after having seen a movie in on of the airfield hangars, Geor…

Jack Dee Rose

Jack Dee Rose

I have been told that WW II Vets are dying at the rate of 17 thousand per week. That means there are many stories out t…

James Lee Diel

James Lee Diel

101st Airborne Division

My uncle, James Lee Diel, was born on March 3, 1922. He was the oldest child ofJames R. Diel and Nellie Ebbert Diel. He…

Lamoine "Frank" Olsen

Lamoine "Frank" Olsen

28th Infantry Division

In July 1940 I joined the Army. The Army was taking volunteers for troops to jump by parachute with plans of forming a…

James Thomas Moon

James Thomas Moon

Aviation Engineers

My name is James T. Moon, serial number 34220609. I was born in Lula, Georgia on June 4, 1913. I enlisted in the Armed…

Stanford Lee Arnold

Stanford Lee Arnold

87th Infantry Division

Stanford Lee Arnold was born on 4 Aug 1923 in Nochaway, Randolph County, Georgia, where he completed his education grad…

William F. Bannister

William F. Bannister

Ninth United States Army

To anyone who may be interested, the following is a chronicle of my World War II Journey. I hope at times you will get…

Owen B. (O.B.) Hill

Owen B. (O.B.) Hill

82nd Airborne Division

Owen B. (O.B.) Hill Served with distinction in the Hq1 Communications Platoon as Battalion Message Center Chief from Ma…

Eddie Graham and Hilda

Eddie Graham and Hilda

Eddie My memories on looking back to that time are vivid in my mind. I was in a sub-depot attached to a B-17…

Edward P. Kent

Edward P. Kent

4th Infantry Division

Finally we got ready to cast off for Normandy. The date was June 5, 1944. We ran down this little river in Dartmouth an…

William W. Farris

William W. Farris

82nd Airborne Division

This story is about an attack. To begin with, there is something about attacks that I find interesting and surprising…

Theodore Rowman

Theodore Rowman

8th Armored Division

All my life growing up something was missing. It wasn't until I heard the song, "Daddy's Little Girl" that I realized w…

Monico C. Amador

Monico C. Amador

Now we would see water and sky and just wait, wait, BS and we played cards till I just didn’t feel like it anymore so I…

William T. Miller

William T. Miller

101st Airborne Division

William T. Miller was killed on the September 20th 1944 at Son, Holland. He came from Kerrville, Texas, had red hair an…

Marvin M. Smith

Marvin M. Smith

30th Infantry “Old Hickory” Division

Why should I record events of my World War II days? Certainly not to preserve them in my memory, for there they are etc…

Maurice J. Ott

Maurice J. Ott

29th Infantry Division

Pfc. Maurice Joseph Ott was the 8th child of Rev. Joseph Ellwood and Ida Myrtle (Haight) Ott. Maurice was the 1st husba…

Irving Smolens

Irving Smolens

4th Infantry Division

During the Invasion of Normandy, at Utah Beach, the batteries would fire from the deck of the LCT's, with the Battery C…

James Kenneth Davis

James Kenneth Davis

101st Airborne Division

James Kenneth Davis first entered the armed forces as an enlisted man in the 45th Infantry Division (National Guard) in…

Marshall Clayton Oliver

Marshall Clayton Oliver

101st Airborne Division

Marshall Clayton Oliver some of his buddies called him "Oakie". was a technician Fifth Grade, Surgical Technician, Medi…

Duiel J. Miller

Duiel J. Miller

4th Infantry Division

The summer of my 17th year my father and I painted our house in preparation for sale. As the days grew long and my pati…

Rocco N. Gedaro

Rocco N. Gedaro

90th Infantry Division

I landed on D+2 at Utah Beach, Normandy, France as a replacement for Company " C " 357 Inf. 90th Division. I fought as…

Merle Lauer

Merle Lauer

101st Airborne Division

Born in march of 1921 in Hooverville, Pennsylvania. I joined the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Toccoa Georgia in…

Thomas F. Edwards

Thomas F. Edwards

99th Infantry Division

In Belgium, January 1945, Thomas' platoon was pinned down by withering fire from a German machine gun nest which had al…

Eugene Carson

Eugene Carson

Wednesday, October 13th I got up and went to the armament shack and again checked my ammunition and weapons. As I was l…

Robert Burr Smith

Robert Burr Smith

101st Airborne Division

My name is Robert Burr Smith, I was a T4 when we first jumped in Normandy. When thinking back on that day, I can recall…

Bert Pulles

Bert Pulles

I was in the Dutch army when the Germans occupied Holland. I was stationed in The Hague where our unit was assigned to…

Robert K. Shaver

Robert K. Shaver

United States Navy

I made my application for a two-year enlistment in the U.S. Navy in Peoria, Illinois on October 24, 1942. The recruiter…

Ed Walsh

Ed Walsh

The 242nd Field Artillery Battalion was formed in August, 1942 at Camp White, Oregon. Most of the men in the original u…

Elizabeth Hillmann

Elizabeth Hillmann

US Medical Department

I was born in New York on October 4th, 1921. I graduated from St. Vincent's Hospital School of Nursing in September of…

William Guarnere

William Guarnere

101st Airborne Division

William "Wild Bill" Guarnere, born 4-28, in south Philly, baby of ten children. As it was then, depression was rampant…

Victor Miller

Victor Miller

I really don't remember getting onto the ships very vividly at all. We were on these two British ships which were to ca…

Paul D. Neumann

Paul D. Neumann

I was trained as an electronics technician by the Air Force and shipped to England in the largest convoy ever to sail u…

Edgar Gamble

Edgar Gamble

IX Engineering Command

I completed basic training at Camp Clairborne, LA from there to camp Shanango, PA from there to Orangeberg, NY (beside…

John Frost

John Frost

11th Armoured Division

I was a 19 year old Territorial Army soldier in 1939 trained for the Home Defence in Searchlights. i was called up on A…

Jerry Bartling

Jerry Bartling

11th Armored Division

I've been putting off telling you something for a long time Mother, and I guess this is time I told you. I heard some b…

Cyril Walter Crain

Cyril Walter Crain

Special Services Combined Operations

Cyril Walter Crain was born on June 11, 1923 in Nottingham, England to Sidney and Florence Crain. He had one brother, F…

X B Cox Jr.

X B Cox Jr.

101st Airborne Division

The 81st Airborne AA Batallion was formed in August 1942 when the 82nd Infantry Division was divided into the 101st Air…

Paul R. Miller

Paul R. Miller

101st Airborne Division

I enlisted into the paratroops and was send to Toccoa, Georgia where the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment was being or…

Ian MacPherson

Ian MacPherson

4th Armoured Brigade

Some time in early July we were pushing forward on high open ground between the Odon and the Ome Rivers. We were suppos…

Thomas Henry Goddard

Thomas Henry Goddard

8th Armoured Brigade

We had been embarking for three days and for three days and nights we had been disembarking, but at last the powers tha…

George Roger Connor

George Roger Connor

6th Armored Division

In a field just south of Wardin, Belgium, on Jan 4, 2000, I spread some dirt from his home at the place where he died i…

Lawrence Bennett

Lawrence Bennett

86th Infantry Division

MY name is Lawrence E. Bennett.I was a Sgt. in company D- 341st Infantry Regiment of the 86th Black Hawk Infantry Divis…

Charles "Ray" Reeder

Charles "Ray" Reeder

3rd Armored Division

I joined the Third Armored Division at Camp Polk, Louisana in early 1942, less than a year after it was formed. I went…

Ian "Roy" Williams

Ian "Roy" Williams

86th "Black Hawk" Infantry Division

Below is a part of the letter which our platoon leader Lt. William R. Jones wrote the parents of Ian Roy Williams. &nb…

Allen Knisley

Allen Knisley

3rd Armored Division

After the draft and basic training, I eventually went to OCS, followed by flight training, then was stationed in Englan…

James P. Hennessey

James P. Hennessey

87th Infantry Division

Jim was born November 24, 1925 in Bayonne, NJ. His father died in 1930, leaving his mother to raise him, his three brot…

William E. Bramswig

William E. Bramswig

87th Infantry Division

On Lincoln's birthday, 1943 I had a half-day off from work as an office boy for 20th Century Fox Films, New York City…

John E. McAuliffe

John E. McAuliffe

87th Infantry Division

The Ardennes Battle Winter of '44 - '45 The Western front was quiet and soldiers were at rest, They took time out from…

Charles J. Adams Jr.

Charles J. Adams Jr.

United States Navy

Over the many years those of us that have written about Operation Neptune, the Navy‚s participation in the preparations…

Donald King

Donald King

101st Airborne Division

I'll never forget Christmas, 1944. We'd planned for a football game, and entertainment, and a big turkey dinner at the…

Archie Ross

Archie Ross

My experiences during those first weeks was unique, because our divsion had been annihilated twice! I was on the run wi…

Hampton E. Vaughan

Hampton E. Vaughan

United States Navy

This is the log of January 31, 1944, the day we grounded on the reef at Jacobs’s pass. The next few days logs tell the…

Manuel Baker

Manuel Baker

3rd Armored Division

Approaching Omaha Beach on June 23, 1944, evidence of the violence which had occurred there just 17 days earlier was ev…

Darrell 'Shifty' Powers

Darrell 'Shifty' Powers

101st Airborne Division

My name is Darrell "Shifty" Powers. I will mention a few of my experiences that are not included in the book, Band of B…

Donald "G" Malarkey

Donald "G" Malarkey

101st Airborne Division

Bill Guarnere, Joe Toye and I landed in the same field about 0,5 mile north of Sainte-Mere Eglise. We spent all night w…

Raymond G. Jensen

Raymond G. Jensen

United States Navy

This narrative is dedicated to my wonderful daughter, Marie Bailey, who has been urging me to write about my active ser…

George A. Davison

George A. Davison

1st United States Army

My father, George A. Davison, was a member of the all Black Unit, the 320th AA Barrage Balloon Battalion, VLA (Very Low…

Bob Coop

Bob Coop

United States Navy

My name is Bob Coop, Robert Coop. I grew up I was born in San Diego, California. And I grew up in Pasadena where my fat…

Arthur G. Willey

Arthur G. Willey

United States Navy

The history of the U.S. Landing Craft Gun (Large) ships that took part in the Normandy landings on June 6th, 1944 have…

Robert H. Searl

Robert H. Searl

93rd Signal Brigade

The 56th Signal Battalion of the United States Army, was re-activated at Fort Jackson, South Carolina on January 23, 19…

John W. Gibson

John W. Gibson

101st Airborne Division

I was born on August 27th, 1921 in Humbolt, South Dakota and joined the U.S. Army on September 4, 1942 in Tucson, Arizo…

John C. Ausland

John C. Ausland

4th Infantry Division

John C. Ausland's book was dedicated to Else Ausland, who patiently relived World War II with me. I was born in LaCross…

Anthony Leone

Anthony Leone

United States Navy

The Allies had mustered 7,000 ships, 11,000 aircraft and over three million fighting men. Twelve countries were represe…

Charles Douglas Caffey

Charles Douglas Caffey

United States Army Air Corps

I was a PFC. Though I spent a year and a half in college, while in uniform, with the prospect of becoming a fighter pil…

Robert Webb

Robert Webb

101st Airborne Division

This was it, June 5th 1944! We didn’t know it then, but the invasion had already been set back 24 hours once. That was…

Frank Rosin

Frank Rosin

104th Infrantry Division "Timberwolves"

These are pictures of my dad and his buddies, although War was hell they found some time for fun and joking around...Hi…

George "Slim" Macon

George "Slim" Macon

26th Infantry Division

Date of Entry 15 Feb 1943, Date of Separation 08 Jan 1946 - Service Company 328th Regiment, 26th Infantry Division (aka…

Earl Lovelace

Earl Lovelace

2nd Infantry Division

After my six months near Birmingham England in a replacement camp, Just before June 6th 1944, we started moving from ca…

Leroy C. Bowen

Leroy C. Bowen

Unites States Navy

Going into the beach it looked like the beach was covered with driftwood when we got close we realized the beach was co…

Milton J. Long

Milton J. Long

Every wwii veteran has his favorite story of an experience he had an this is mine. We hadn’t been in france very long b…

Wallace R. "Wally" Hoffman

Wallace R. "Wally" Hoffman

There were two basic reasons of why we managed to survive those trips over Germany in an “aluminum coffin”. The first w…

John A. "OleTiger" Piazza

John A. "OleTiger" Piazza

This is a short profile of my experiences in the RAF and the USAAF during WW2. Also this picture was taken about the ti…

Glenn H. Shaunce

Glenn H. Shaunce

Here is what happened, On good Friday, March 30th 1945, the night was real quite when I collided with a German tank on…

Emery Alvin van Every

Emery Alvin van Every

82nd Airborne Division

Emery Alvin Van Every was born October 4, 1923 near Clear Lake, Iowa. He is just now in 2003, approaching his 80th Birt…

John Reynolds Bender

John Reynolds Bender

3rd Armored Division "Spearhead"

John Reynolds Bender entered the U.S. Army in March, 1941, as a chaplain and was part of the cadre of the newly formed…

John H. Taylor

John H. Taylor

101st Airborne Division

All the time we were in England, it was obvious that our training was geared to prepare us for 'The Invasion". In late…

Joseph M. Manzella

Joseph M. Manzella

29th Infantry Division

I was on this LST in the channel waiting to hit the beach when I was woke up by the sixteen inch guns and the rockets t…

Hank C. Zimmerman

Hank C. Zimmerman

101st Airborne Division

I was born in Larksville, PA, a small town in Wilkes-Barre-Scranton area where coal mining was the primary occupation…

Joe F. Kunze

Joe F. Kunze

I am Joe Kunze, a native of Columbus, Georgia. I was navigator on a B-17 Bomber in World War II. I am here to represent…

Walt A. Maguire

Walt A. Maguire

101st Airborne Division

I Walt Maguire was born February 19th, 1920 in Philadelphia, he grew up in the Germantown section of Philadelphia (52 W…

Wynn R. Campbell

Wynn R. Campbell

Born on August 23d 1922, in Dover New Hampshire, Wynn R. Campbell served in the United States Army from 1940 to 1945. H…

Mitchell Kaidy

Mitchell Kaidy

87th Infantry Division

In the snow of Germany When we crouched down, we could immediately spot a pool of blood that was dammed-up by the casua…

Albert Blithe

Albert Blithe

101st Airborne Division

When asked by his son Gordon "Hey dad did you kill anybody when you were in the war?". Albert looked at him, didn't say…

Richard E. "Dick" Schwab

Richard E. "Dick" Schwab

2nd Infantry Division

When we (Company I, 38th Inf) were dug in on the approach to Hill 192 in Normandy my Fox-hole Buddy and I had quite a s…

Roland H. Hiles

Roland H. Hiles

90th Infantry Division

It is July 4th, 1944. We just haw received replacements and have regrouped to launch another attack. We are in reserve…

John W. Carson

John W. Carson

Gunnery school was over and I was now a new S/Sgt with a pair of silver wings enroute to the well known repel depot, th…

Jim M. Kirby

Jim M. Kirby

7th Infantry Division

My experience with the military way of life began in 1938 in Scottsboro, AL. when my dad joined the American Legion the…

James A. Besong

James A. Besong

86th Infantry Blackhawk Division

“This outfit will never go overseas! We may send replacements, but go as a unit? Never!” That wishful thought had stood…

Daniel Robert Shine

Daniel Robert Shine

75th Infantry Division

Just after midnight...Twenty year old Private Daniel R. "Bob" Shine squatted in a roadside ditch in knee-deep icy water…

Donato Marini

Donato Marini

87th Infantry Division

This is not the usual war story that one is most likely to read in this column of "As I Remember It". More often than n…

Bunny Wayne Chambers

Bunny Wayne Chambers

United States Navy

Now let me ask you this. There’s a lot of side things, should I tell all of those? There are a lot of side things that…

Richard V. Ehlert

Richard V. Ehlert

United States Navy

April 28th, 1944, a convoy of 8 LST’s were holding a simulated invasion exercise called “Exercise Tiger”, when they wer…

William R. Ehlert

William R. Ehlert

Transportation Corps

My D-Day experience was the result of fortuitous events. Upon my graduation from the Adjutant General School in Washing…

Clarence "Clancy" Lyall

Clarence "Clancy" Lyall

101st Airborne Division

I was born on 10/14/1925 in Orange, Texas. I entered the Army in 1942 after moving to Pennsylvania in 1939. I went to I…

Teunis Hoogerdijk

Teunis Hoogerdijk

I was born on November 28th 1913 in Oegstgeest and deceased on march 27th 1984 in Leiden, The Netherlands. After 6 mont…

Sherman V.N. Best

Sherman V.N. Best

In the early days of 1945 there was a particularly frightening crisis in the 9th Air Force that only a few people were…

John C. Raaen Jr.

John C. Raaen Jr.

United States Rangers

The attached story was written shortly after the invasion and is the basis for my story "Intact". I can come close to r…

Sanford “Sandy” Schwaber

Sanford “Sandy” Schwaber

101st Airborne Division

On Sept. 2, 1943 Sanford received an invitation from Uncle Sam “I want you.” He and his wife had been married for three…

Phil Hooper

Phil Hooper

101st Airborne Division

It was March 16, 1943 that I marched away as a private into the finest army the world has ever seen. My first stop…

Max Wolff Fiho

Max Wolff Fiho

Brazilian Expeditionary Force

Max Wolff Fiho was born in the town of Rio Negro, PR, Brazil, in July 29, 1912. In WWII he became a part of the 11th RI…

Forrest Guth

Forrest Guth

101st Airborne Division

Forrest Guth was born to John H. R. and Mayme L. Guth in the small district of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. He is a dir…

Ralph E. Goranson

Ralph E. Goranson

Ranger Captain Ralph E. Goranson, of Libertyville, Illinois, with the special mission at Pointe de la Percée, led the B…

Raymond B. Dierkes

Raymond B. Dierkes

United States Navy

AI was sent my induction notice at the age of 20 1/2 years old. I reported to Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis, Mo. On t…

Nicholas L. Bonilla

Nicholas L. Bonilla

101st Airborne Division

My father Pfc. Nicholas L. Bonilla became a Qualified Parachutist April 11, 1942. In this early photo, he wears the pat…

Gerald Paulk

Gerald Paulk

101st Airborne Division

I enlisted the army at Fort Mc Phearson, Georgia in November 1942 at age 18 and went directly into the airborne which w…

Ernst Goth

Ernst Goth

352th Infantry Division

My Grandfather only dreamed of becoming a mathematics teacher. But life does not turn out as one hopes. On June 6th 194…

Jochen (Joachim) Nubel

Jochen (Joachim) Nubel

719th Infantry Division

I would like to ask you for your help regarding a WWII episode that I witnessed in 1944 as a German soldier during WWII…

Elmer Schauer

Elmer Schauer

3rd Canadian Infantry Division

In 1944, we were on standby, we were not allowed to leave our barracks, we knew something was about to happen very soon…

Lester Schauer

Lester Schauer

1st Canadian Infantry Division

Lester Schauer, Elmer Schauer brother, unfortunately did not surivive the war. There is no specific information o…

Maurice Albert Parker

Maurice Albert Parker

Royal Rifles of Canada

As his children's minds were growing into knowledge their Daddy's was groping into memory; as his life was suppressed b…

Simon Goldenthal

Simon Goldenthal

3rd Canadian Division

I am Simon Goldenthal. I was the eleventh man taken on when the Queens Own Rifles were mobilized on June 5, 1940. I was…

John W. Wray

John W. Wray

Royal Canadian Navy

I joined the Canadian Navy as a ship's writer. However, the Navy needed officers and anyone with a fair education was e…

William Henry Fuller

William Henry Fuller

Royal Canadian Air Force

I believe this piece of history should be understood. French Indo China, Thailand (Siam), the Kra Isthmus all the way t…

George Thomas Palmer

George Thomas Palmer

The Royal Rifles of Canada

"George was a real hero... he steadied the POWs down because he was so much older than the young guys. Since he was old…

Harry H. Osborne

Harry H. Osborne

Royal Canadian Armoured Corps

The cold and wet was unbearable. But the fear and being sea sick was even worse. His thoughts went back to the farm in…

Anda Kerkhoven

Anda Kerkhoven

Dutch Resistance Cross

Melisande Tatiana Marie (Anda) Kerkhoven would not have been Anda if she had not been one of the first to help the resi…

Karl Heid

Karl Heid

3rd Panzer "Großdeutschland"

Karl Heid was sleeping with two of his friends in a church somewhere in Russia. In the morning after he woke up, Karl g…

Lorne Phillips

Lorne Phillips

1st Canadian Radio Location Unit

Lorne Phillips was born in 1925 in Toronto, Canada. When he was 3 months old his Father deserted him and his Mother. He…

John A. Marin

John A. Marin

Queen's Own Rifles shoulder title

It got pretty cold in January and the QOR network seemed to be working pretty well as we started receiving boxes of sca…

Norman J. Utke

Norman J. Utke

Royal Highland Regiment of Canada

I enlisted in the Army in October 15th. 1943, and was off to the Regina Enlistment Depot where I was issued Army dress…

Alex

Alex

Royal Highland Regiment of Canada

The Royal Highland Regiment of Canada, known as the Black Watch, is one of the most famous regiments in Canada it was m…

Robert R. Dumouchelle

Robert R. Dumouchelle

Royal Canadian Airforce

My story begins in England. The 2nd Tactical Airforce was composed of many squadrons. I 'wasn't told beforehand the pur…

Stan Scislowski

Stan Scislowski

5th Canadian Armoured Divsion

We'd just got moving out of the ditches when mortar bombs smacked down all around us with tremendous crashes, catching…

Alexander Uhlig

Alexander Uhlig

1st Regiment Fallschirmjäger

Uhlig was born at the feudal estate of Meusdorf near Leipzig. After completing his labour service he joined the General…

Dan Hartigan

Dan Hartigan

Canadian Airborne Regiment

At the beginning of March 1942 Canadians had two and a half years of World War II behind them. The tremendous losses su…

Les Puttee

Les Puttee

British Royal Navy

Les Puttee was only 19 years when he joined the Royal Navy in 1941, born in Woolwich London, a young cockney lad from a…

Denis Edwards

Denis Edwards

Oxs and Bucks Light Infantry

Denis "Eddie" Edwards was born in Sundridge, Kent in July 1924. He had always intended to join the Royal Navy and becam…

Antoni Szulakowski

Antoni Szulakowski

1st Independent Polish Parachute Brigade

Antoni Szulakowski, was born in the village of Sienkiewicze, close to the Soviet border, on 5th December 1924. Sienkiew…

Lewis J. Dube

Lewis J. Dube

United States Navy

The United States of America had been involved in World War Two for over two years when my father, a seventeen year old…

Benjamin Kaplow

Benjamin Kaplow

26th Infantry Division

I was drafted into World War 2 right out of high school in 1943. This is my story as told in the letters I wrote home…

Robert M. Abrahamson

Robert M. Abrahamson

36th Infantry Division

My brothers and I were all drafted into the United States Army. The oldest, Fredrick, was in the first draft lottery dr…

Arthur William Jasper

Arthur William Jasper

87th Infantry Division

In April 1943 I took a test for the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP). I was notified that I had passed and it w…

Robert (Bob) O'Mara

Robert (Bob) O'Mara

101st Airborne Division

I took basic training at Camp Robinson in Little Rock, Arkansas and spent about 2 months moving to other bases. Left Ba…

Stokes M. Taylor

Stokes M. Taylor

82nd Airborne Division

Stokes spent 2 years in the cavalry in Panama from 1939 to 1940. He was called back in 1942 with the 325th infantry at…

Stephen Tunnicliffe

Stephen Tunnicliffe

First ship – Landing Craft Tank LCT The training was over at last. The newly commissioned officers had a farewell get-…

Don Frederick

Don Frederick

101st Airborne Division

To understand why I became a medic you'll have to hear a little about me before I entered the service. My family consis…

Thomas Pflugk

Thomas Pflugk

The Green Howards

My grandfather Thomas Pflugk first joined the Green Howards in 1926 at Catterick Camp when aged 19yrs. He was a career…

Mahlon Earl Sebring

Mahlon Earl Sebring

82nd Airborne Division

Dad started his military "experience" so to speak working at the B-24 bomber assembly factory in Willow Run, Michigan…

Albert O. Nielson

Albert O. Nielson

Going through Dad's papers and from what I know, here are the facts on my Dad. Use them in any way you can. He was born…

Walter Uden

Walter Uden

Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers

"We Cleaned up the Beaches for more Landing Craft to come in and help the craft to get back to U K to reload and then r…

Ray Aebischer

Ray Aebischer

101st Airborne Division

My name Is Ray Aebischer, former member of Company F, 506th parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Befor…

Allan Wilford Howerton

Allan Wilford Howerton

84th Infantry Division

I landed with my unit (Company K, 335th Infantry, 84th Division) on Normandy Beach in early November 1944, well after D…

Daniel Smith

Daniel Smith

30th Infantry Division

I was a member of the 30th Infantry Division when it crossed the English Channel to the beaches of Omaha Beach in Franc…

Mariana Milyutina

Mariana Milyutina

Medic / Surgeon

The war began when I was in my 3rd year of the 1st Medical Institute. That day we had a physiology exam, for which I wa…

Stanislaw Sosabowski

Stanislaw Sosabowski

1st Independent Polish Parachute Brigade

Stanislaw Franciszek Sosabowski was born on the 6th May 1892, in Stanislawow a town in Austrian Poland known then as Ga…

David M. "Buck" Rogers

David M. "Buck" Rogers

101st Airborne Division

I was picked as one of the cadre that formed the 506th parachute regiment while stationed with the 501st parachute batt…

Mike Ingrisano

Mike Ingrisano

316th Troop Carrier Group

Staff Sergeant Michael N. Ingrisano, Jr, ASN 12129759, born in Brooklyn, New York, March 28, 1921, enlisted at Whitehal…

Arthur Letchford

Arthur Letchford

1st Airborne Division

My twin brother Philip and I were part of a contingent of Paratroopers who were to reinforce the 2nd Battalion in North…

Colin Reynolds

Colin Reynolds

1st Airborne Division

The first jump was absolute luxury. We budding paratroopers had been fed a splendid breakfast of cereal, followed by ba…

Aleksandr P. Petrov

Aleksandr P. Petrov

Order of the Red Star

Aleksandr Petrovitsj Petrov was a soldier in the Soviet Army. He was born in the village of Chumaki in the province of…

William M. True

William M. True

101st Airborne Division

This is my 17th ride in a C-47, but this time it's eerily silent here in the darkness. None of the joking, cajoling or…

Herman J. Moulliet

Herman J. Moulliet

101st Airborne Division

I enlisted in the army at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana. My enlistment date was 16 June 1944. I served i…

Bob Hammons

Bob Hammons

825th Tank Destroyer Battalion

In the summer it was so hot and the animals and the dead soldiers of the german army would swell and some would burst o…

James T. Lingg

James T. Lingg

1st Infantry Division

I was captured on the 10th of August 1944 near Mayanne, France on an early morning 4 man patrol into the enemy lines. W…

Tom Davies

Tom Davies

King's Regiment

I landed on Sword Beach whilst a member of the 5th Battalion, The Kings Regiment. The foregoing is my account of my exp…

Arthur Platt

Arthur Platt

6th Airborne Division

On D-Day June 61h 1944, the 8th Para Battalion Group was an independent force of about 760 men, within the 6th Airborne…

Edwin G. Booth

Edwin G. Booth

6st Airborne Division

When I left the school at the age of 14 years I started work at a Building Firm the year was 1938. Not long after about…

Lew F. Kemp

Lew F. Kemp

1st Airborne Division

I joined the parachute regiment 156th Batalion after service in Sicily and Italy 1943. In september 1944 I parachuted i…

Roman Figiel

Roman Figiel

1st Polish Armoured Division

The Second World war grows more distant in history every day, but not in the home of Roman Figiel, born in Poland in 19…

Harold Wiener

Harold Wiener

United States Airforce

I will give you a brief overviwe which I hope may be of some interest to you and those you try to give some insight on…

Derek Hinton

Derek Hinton

13th Airfield Construction Group

At the age of 18 years, along with three friends I volunteered for the Army. We all three opted to join the Tank Corps…

Ted Everett

Ted Everett

206th Field Ambulance

It is a long time ago, fifty eight years and five months. So much has happened, so many things have changed, some good…

John Absolon

John Absolon

50 Infantry Division

Where and how did you spend your 21st birthday? Due to events in the autumn of 1922 it was predetermined that my 21st b…

Ray Daniel

Ray Daniel

British Royal Navy

I remember when my school-days ended and I left Wick Road Senior Boys' School in July 1939, 'War' was imminent and I wa…

Bill Hickman

Bill Hickman

43rd Wessex Division

My Dad was called up in 1940 and was enlisted first with the Kings Royal Rifles and did his training at Winchester. The…

Wally Smith

Wally Smith

Dorset Regiment

On 25th September 1944, having reached Driel, an attempt to cross the river Rhine in the area of W esterbouwing was mad…

Norman G. Anstey

Norman G. Anstey

50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division

I regsitered for war service early 1940 wishing for a preference for the Navy. After two months I had a reply saying th…

John Iddenden

John Iddenden

Royal Engineers

Before the push up through the corridor, the Royal Engineers detachment had arrived in a small village called Meerbeek…

Harvey Smith

Harvey Smith

79th Armoured Division

I joined 6th Assault Regiment Royal Engineers shortly after my eighteenth birthday, having joined up on a Territorial e…

Bill Charles

Bill Charles

Cameronian Scottish Rifles

My dad was no-one special to anyone but his family. He was of the “Old School,” he was boss in his house, Ma got a shar…

Donald Clifton Ross

Donald Clifton Ross

101st Airborne Division

Taccoa, and a Jug of White Lightening. While at Taccoa, somebody went up on a hill and got a jug of white lightning. We…

Harvey S. Olson

Harvey S. Olson

Excerpt from Roland G. Ruppenthal, American Forces in Action: Utah Beach to Cherbourg. Washington, D.C.: Historical Div…

Luther Thompson

Luther Thompson

United States Airforce

When M/Sgt. Luther Thompson of Lula, Georgia, as a boy first began tinkering with an austere looking 1916 Dodge touring…

Howard Andrew Ellis

Howard Andrew Ellis

My name is Howard Andrew Ellis and I was a 17-year-old living in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. when I quit school and enl…

Charles W. Stockell

Charles W. Stockell

2nd Infantry Division

At the time I was a young 2d Lieutenant of artillery. I found that was great because I love to hunt And shooting artill…

Charles Everett Bullard

Charles Everett Bullard

United States Airforce

A very exciting time for us all, we knew we about to make history – but would it be a good or a bad history? To see all…

Albert R. Panebianco

Albert R. Panebianco

45th Infantry Division

I was an infantryman with Company "K" , 157th Regiment, 45th Infantry Division. Uncle Sam sent greetings to me, March 1…

Jack E. Foley

Jack E. Foley

101st Airborne Division

When we left our position, Bois Jacques, we were trucked from there, into Bastogne (first time there since 12/19/44) an…

William H. Fullilove

William H. Fullilove

British Royal Navy

In the past I have written various things about LST's, so this time I thought I would "swing the lamp" and tell you of…

Jack G. Ammon

Jack G. Ammon

4th Armored Division

In january of 1944 we were on the high seas from america to england, and entered that part of the world through a port…

Robert L. Cragg

Robert L. Cragg

26th Infantry Division

Even though the Allies had air superiority throughout the European Theater of Operations the Luftwaffe was not complete…

Roy Burdette Maguire

Roy Burdette Maguire

90th Infantry Division

Roy Burdette Maguire, T/SGT C Company 712th Tank Battalion was my Father. He was born at home on 20 April 1922, in Bent…

Slawomir Kwiatkowski

Slawomir Kwiatkowski

1st Independent Polish Parachute Brigade

It was the decree of fate for me to have the two maturity exams in my life – both with positive result. The first took…

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