A Farewell to Arms
At one point, the real war nearly caught up with me. It was during the Battle of the Bulge which began on December 17, 1944,
Mel Corren
March 3, 2023
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Everyone Wanted to Pay the Check
Ninth in the Series As I’ve previously mentioned, none of the GIs who visited me while I was a GI in the Paris Headquarters believed
Mel Corren
August 17, 2022
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Livin’ Large in Paris
8th in the Series I first met Bob Rieders in Valognes, Normandy where we both joined the cadre (a new unit which is just being
Mel Corren
April 13, 2022
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An American in Paris – Me
7th in the Series Having been one of the soldiers who had left the officer and truck on that first day, I was worried about
Mel Corren
December 30, 2021
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On Entering Paris
Sixth in a Series On Entering Paris 25/8/1944 We waited, impatiently, until August 25th, 1944, when General de Gaulle and his army marched down the
Mel Corren
October 8, 2021
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On to France
Fifth in a Series The next week, after returning from Tidworth, where Sgt. Griffen and I had closed out Ordinance Depot, O641, we received orders
Mel Corren
July 1, 2021
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It Takes More Than Bombs to Close This Pub
A Yank in England – 4th in a Series I suppose it’s OK to tell you, right off, that in the fall of 1943 we
Mel Corren
June 14, 2021
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As Luck Would Have It
It was during World War II, on September 18th, 1943, that I boarded the troopship, Argentina, in New York Harbor. The scuttlebutt was that we
Mel Corren
December 8, 2020
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School Boy, Soldier Boy
Basic Training – Part II of Ongoing Series My fondest recollections of Basic Training were chow, calisthenics, drills, and parades. However, I excelled only in
Mel Corren
August 7, 2020
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School Boy, Soldier Boy
School Boy It was the Spring of 1942, and the world was full of uncertainty. War was raging in Britain and the fields of Europe,
Mel Corren
July 3, 2020
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