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Damberg, Wanda War and Internment
Wanda Damberg experienced the 7 December 1941 Pearl Harbor attack on 8 December [Annotator’s Note: the Philippines is...
Hegerty, Ghislaine War Comes to Belgium
Ghislaine Hegerty and her family took shelter from the war in a religious building next to their home [Annotator's Note...
McCarthy, George War Experience Overview
George W. McCarthy was born in April 1925 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He father worked as a lumberman, but lost his...
Sharp, Horace War's End
Horace Sharp and his squad [Annotator's Note: 1st Squad, 1st Platoon, Company B, 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment...
Kingsley, Thomas War's End
Thomas Kingsley and the 27th Tank Battalion, 20th Armored Division helped take the city of Munich. They fought against...
Townsend, Joseph War's End
Joseph Townsend started to lose his teeth in 1955. The dentist told him that all his teeth were cracked at the ridge....
Hackman, Delbert War's End
Delbert Franklin Hackman [Annotator's Note: a mechanic with Headquarters Battery, 391st Armored Field Artillery...
Zingheim, John War's End
Dr. John Julien Zingheim was not close to Remagen [Annotator's Note: Remagen, Germany]. He occasionally operated on...
Tacket, Henry War's End
Henry A. Tacket and the USS Heermann (DD-532) returned to the United States after the Battle of Leyte Gulf. The ship...
Damonte, Emmanuel War's End
They were pushing north, without much resistance, when Emmanual Damonte's radio reported, on 6 August [Annotator's Note...
Morse, Ralph War's End
Ralph Morse was covering opening of schools in Aachen, Germany and based near Ike's [Annotator's Note: General of the...
O'Rorke, James War's End
James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] was divided into a group sent to a camp that overlooked a...
Collie, C. War's End
C. Charles Collie heard on 6 August [Annotator's Note: 1945] that the atomic bomb had been used on Hiroshima. He knew...
Staymates, Arthur War's End and Occupation Duty
As the war was coming to an end, Arthur Staymates and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 1st Battalion, 26th...
Knapp, William War's End and Postwar
Following the Battle of Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg; 1 April to 22...
Rosenbaum, James War's End and Return Home
After the Japanese surrendered, James Stewart Rosenbaum thought he would be heading home, but he and his unit [...
Frydman, Louis Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Louis Frydman felt the Warsaw ghetto uprising was just a matter of choosing how to die. [Annotator's Note: Frydman...
Weber, Norman Wartime Impact on Weber's Father
Norman Weber recognized changes in his father when he returned on leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a...
Hever, John Wonderful News
John Hever never saw any Japanese soldiers until after the war was over. They had no weapons, and were walking around...
Schwarc, Laszlo "Leslie Schwartz" Wounded on the Threshold of Liberation
On 25 April 1945, Laszlo Schwarc was among 3,600 prisoners put on 80 cattle cars from the Muhldorf concentration camp...

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