Cool photos. After Supper went to play ball with F. Co. Score 5 – 4 in favor of us. Wednesday, April 26, 1944 Morning. . . . ...

Members of the Army, Army Air Corps, Navy, and Coast Guard who participated in one of the four major campaigns in the liberation of France (Normandy, ...

Where the grandfather refers to SST boat you have a comment which corrected it to LST Landing Ship Troops. In actuality it was known as Landing Ship ...

Great diary of the events. I reads very similiar to the diary of Pvt Brown that I have on my website. Here are some comments. I thought maybe this ...

Ernie Pyle visited with my dad's unit. I need a date, Marion. NO! I'm married. Not that kind of a date.

Here are some more short quotes from the same source as above. A general reference was made about the engineers during the advance north of R...

The movie was "Story of G.I.Joe" I should have known that one, too. It was on TV earlier this month and I watched about half of it. Thanks....

See my post I made under New Additions to this Site. I quoted from the Center for Military History about the amphibious landing made by...

Quoting from the article: That was never more true than in Pyle's Pulitzer-winning column concerning the death of Capt. Henry T. Waskow of Bel...

We 1st Sqd was carrying some lumber and had to carry about a mile but Diego gave us a lift. Ha! Diego -- slang for an 'Italian'.

I love to hear that. He is the kind of guy that really deserved a medal---even it if was a little late. It doesn't hurt to fill out the Gov't fo...

That is why the Army calls it "Drill". They drill it into you until you get it right.

but all of the references are to the 11th Engineers. It was Co B of the 111 Engineers Ha! I'm busting my sides laughing. I didn't even ...