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Sandra Bonilla Thompson wrote Love, Honor and Cherish, an account of the wartime romance between her parents. It is based on a collection of more than 500 letters written between them from 1942 to 1944. Her father, a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division, was killed in action in Holland on September 22, 1944.
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Wayne speaks about being in London shortly after it was bombed and about how he survived being hit in France.
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A native Englishwoman and member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, Barbara Saks spent WWII working in Intelligence at Bletchley Park, the United Kingdom's main top-secret codebreaking establishment. During the Blitz, German pilots bombed her house, leaving only a skeleton frame. Barbara came to America in 1946 to be with her husband.
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Assigned to the 78th Infantry Division, Weindling fought in Germany, seeing much action as he worked to cut off German supply lines and secure a crossing for the Allies.
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Allan B. Kortz recalls a lucky accident involving the 66th Black Panther, his anti-tank platoon, as the division guarded against enemy patrols.
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