Personal Tales - Training

•  Briand Beaudin, M.D. (Parachute Training)
•  Edward Boccafogli (Parachute Assault Training, 1944)
•  Roy Lindquist (Pioneer Paratrooper)

Personal Tales - Officer Training Courses

•  508th Officers - Real Life Experiences

Biographic

•  Reverend William J. Byron, S.J (Ordination post WW-II)
•  Paul W. Hamblin (Univ. of Del. Alumni Honors)
•  Curtis L. Johnson, D-Day POW
•  Robert M. Mathias, D-Day Jump
•  "In Memory of Troy Newman", I Co.
•  Tony Rogers, UK
• Bill Sackenheim, A Success Story (PDF files, requires Acrobat Reader)
  • Part 1 Foreword & Preparing for War
  • Part 2 Normandy - Operation Overlord
  • Part 3 Holland - Operation Market Garden
  • Part 4 Belgium - Ardennes, Battle of The Bulge
  • Part 5 Occupation - Frankfort and Berlin

•  Samuel Rowland - Mystery Paratrooper Photo

•  Joseph Shirley - Captured on D-Day

•  Brock Smith "Veteran Profile" 

•  Louis Spera - biography

•  Jean H. Trahin - biography

•  Notes From Nottingham - multiple submitters

Tales of British Citizens

•  Betty Smith - My Love for Sal Valenti
•  Doreen Stone -  Beeston, 1944
•  Frank Williams -  Recollections Of A Child In Nottingham
•  Recollections of Nottingham Residents

Tales of French Citizens

•  Marie-T Lavielle -Life Changing Encounter
•  Henry Vasselin - "A Month During The Battle For La Haye du Puits"

Speeches

•  1998 Graduation, Ft. Benning

Personal Tales of the 508th - D-Day and Beyond

•  Mark Alexander (PDF) (34 Days in Normandy)
•  Darrell Apple (508th's Last "Combat" Jump
•  Roland Archambault (Twice Captured)
•  E. H. "Tex" Barton (Strolling Along)
•  Neal Beaver "First to see Utah Beach"
•  Marcel Bollag (Escape In Normandy)
•  Zig Boroughs "Recollections of Past"
•  Paul Bouchereau (account of his capture on D-day)
•  Malcolm Brannen Five Days On The Run)
•  Malcolm Brannen (Four Days in Normandy)
•  Malcolm Brannen (2 Weeks Celebrating July 4th)
•  Briand Beaudin (Audio Interviews
  • Training
  • Nottingham
  • Normandy
•  Joe Bressler describes his Normandy experience
•  Joe Bullard "They Even Took My Dog Tags"
•  Nelson Bryant "When The Old War Wound Aches"
•  Nelson Bryant Belated Debt and Apology
•  Curtis Canard (Strange Bedfellows)
•  Bill Clark "Just A Coincidence?"
•  John DeLury - Normandy Thoughts
•  Paul Demciak - POW Escape Via Italy
•  Pete de Vries - WW-II, Korea and Vietnam veteran
•  Ralph E. DeWeese - The DeWeese Diary
•  Don Dicks - (Co I) Personal Interviews (audio)
  •  Part 1
  •  Part 2
  •  Part 3
  •  Part 4
•  George D. Fairman "Chicken a la Ball and Fairman"
•  Eugene Falgione - POW Christmas 1944
•  William Farris "Attack on Pretot"
•  Clinton Ford (painting exhibit of WW-II experiences)
•  German POWs In Holzheim
•  Cipriano Gamez - Lest We Forget speaker
•  Gen. James Gavin  - A letter to Gen. H. L. Clark
•  Gen. James Gavin  - A letter to Frank McKee
•  Bill Giegold Recollection of WWII Paratroop Experiences
•  Thomas Gintjee - The Road To and On Normandy
•  Joe Hamm - Letters from France
•  Brody Hand - "Captured"
•  Harry Hauri - Why I Never Told My Kids To Take Up Skydiving

•  Raymond J. Hummel "Hell's Half Acre"
•  Raymond J. Hummel "Among First In Normandy"
•  James C. Hutto - World War II Memoirs
•   Hank Lefebvre - Rescued Man Meets Rescuer
•  Alfred Keller-Maas - Thank You (-Day +50)
•  John Kersh "A Trooper's Report On Normandy"
•  Joseph M. Kissane - WW-II Memoirs
•   Bill Knapp "On The Ground In Normandy"
• Jim Kurz "Hitler's Baby Factory"
•  Wes Kuehnle "2000 Memorial Day"
•  George D. Lamm  "D-Day Experiences"
•  R. B. Lewellen :Jump into Gourbesville"
•  Elmer Martell "War Time Prisoner Experiences"
•  Guido Mastroianni - "Won't Forget June 6, 1944"
•  Frank E. McKee: Experiencing War
•  Memorial Mass, D-Day + 50
•  Rock Merritt - Paraglide article recapping career
•  Lew Milkovics "Songs In The Night"
•  Wooster Morgan "My Paratrooper Activities"
•  Robert Moss +Dropping Into Chef du Pont"
•  Richard Owen - "Drawing become reality"
•  Tony Pilutti  - Italian Americans in World War II
•  Carl Porter "Men At War, Chow Call"
•  Jim Pratt (Experiences In WW-II)
•  Frank Ramirez "Wounded By Friendly Fire"
•  Jack Schlegel, "Escape from France"
•  Jack Schlegel, Para du Jour J (in French)
•  D. Zane Schlemmer - "Bois de Limors to Hill 131 "
•  D. Zane Schlemmer  - "Christmas Memories"
•  D. Zane Schlemmer  - "The French Rabbit That Helped Win The Battle of Normandy"
•  John Schultz - Market-Garden Recollections
•  Robert Sickler - Foxhole letter
•  Brock Smith "Fighting in Werbomont"
•  Clyde Smith - Nearly a year ... as a POW
•   Allan H. Stein - Bulge Recollections
•  Norbert Studelska."A Normal Evening Before All Hell Breaks Loose"
•  Carlos Ross - "Things That I Remember"
•  M. G. Thomas - D-Day Prayer
•  Ralph H.. Thomas - D-Day
•  Thorensche Molen
•  Bill Tritt - D-Day Revisited (65 yeas later)
•  Glen Vantrease " Thank You Note"
•  Walter L. Wakefield -"A Baby On A Battlefield"
•  Ed Wheelock "German Paratrooper Attack"
•  Ed Wheelock “Battle of the Bulge”
•  Dick Wolch - Personal account of D-Day

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