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Jeannine Burk's mother died in February [Annotator's Note: 1950] and the trip to New York was in May. The purpose of...
After finishing his training, Donald Scott was put on a troop ship to the 8th Air Force field in Knettishall, England...
Odell Vaughn fought through North Africa and Italy with the 178th Field Artillery Battalion. He was promoted to the...
Arnold Debrick has one regret [Annotator's Note: from his time in Company B, 9th Armored Infantry Battalion, 6th...
For the year prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the attack was on Sunday, 7 December 1941], James...
Murphy Burke made good, lasting friendships while in the Navy, and when he got out, he took advantage of the G.I. Bill...
In August 1944, Archie Maltbie had a mission against a bridge across the Seine River. Fragments of German units were...
Frank Patti's division [Annotator's Note: Patti was a member of Company C, 1st Battalion, 333rd Infantry Regiment, 84th...
Frank Bostwick joined the ROTC [Annotator's Note: Reserve Officer Training Corps] for three years while he was in high...
Jack Leaming and his SBD pilot had just completed their bombing run on Marcus Island when the antiaircraft fire became...
Kenneth Killilea and the 4th Division returned to Maui from Tinian. There was a big luau and then training started...
Judith Baron and her sister were taken by cattle car to a work camp in Germany. They had been in Auschwitz which was...
Benjamin Lesser could hear the front closing in on the rock quarry where they worked. The inmates were told that they...
When he arrived on Wake Island [Annotator's Note: with the US Marine Corps' 1st Defense Battalion] in August 1941,...
Since the unit Gus Gikas led was intended to replace another unit in India that had been deployed for two years, their...
On the morning after the last day of Passover in 1942, two SS officers and two Hungarian gendarmes knocked on the...
Kenneth Killilea was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He grew up there for the most part. He also lived in Wellesley,...
Warren R. Schmitt was born in May 1921 in the Irish Channel [Annotator's Note: a neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana...
Glen Arnold Jostad grew up on a farm during the Great Depression. His family was poor but never hungry since they had...
Edward Shames was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1922. He can recall the Great Depression, but it wasn't as severe in his...
Eugene DiSabatino had to return to his home in Wilmington, Delaware in order to find more civilian clothes that he...
Arthur Staymates had nearly daily conversations with Göring [Annotator's Note: German Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring...
George Morgan was tasked at Iwo Jima to swim to a peninsula in the island and place a battery operated light on it. It...
Wim de Jonge worked in unsafe conditions in the coal mines of Japan. He was there for about a year. That was the...
C. Charles Collie found that he was right where he wanted to be while on his destroyer [Annotator's Note: he was the...
Kaliste Saloom was part of a group of 30 men who landed at Oran in North Africa [Annotator's Note: as part of Operation...
Ralph Hopkins participated in the battle of Okinawa [Annotator's Note: while aboard the USS Louisville (CA-28)]. It was...
Having participated in the assaults on Guam, Saipan, and Leyte Gulf, Robert Judd and UDT-4 was tasked next with the...
Charles Davis clearly remembers the day Pearl Harbor was bombed. It was eight days after his 15th birthday, and Davis...
Wallace Hurley was discharged at San Antonio after returning to the United States. Men were given various strange...
Roger Bowers describes the camp guards [Annotator's Note: at Stalag IX-B in Bad Orb, Germany] as mostly SS troops [...
Blanche Gangwere would leave each morning in a Clubmobile [Annotator's Note: she was billeted with an English family in...
Joy Skelton came to realize the importance of living for the day while she was in a concentration camp. She has tried...
Mildred Aupied was influenced by her work at the shipyard [Annotator’s Note: she was a welder at the Delta Shipbuilding...
Following Navy tradition, Harlan Twible was the last person to be pulled out of the water. He was picked up by the...
As a pilot in VB-6 [Annotator's Note: Bombing Squadron 6 (VB-6)], Tony Schneider sailed aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6...

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