"Walking one-man general store"
A number of Army documents and memoirs written by infantrymen in the European Theater of Operations shed light on what combat troops carried in their pockets
Christmas Eve 1944
3rd Infantry Division machine gunner Sergeant Albert Brown describes Christmas Eve 1944 on the front
"We expected to die"
Marine Corpsman Richard E. Overton describes the mental strain of fighting in one of the most brutal campaigns of the Second World War
What was it like in a foxhole?
Two combat veterans describe conditions on the front line