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Donald H. "Don" Bee saw his first action [Annotator's Note: as a crewman aboard the USS Intrepid (CV-11)], when a...

James Billingsley was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in November 1923. He remembers the Depression [Annotator's Note: Great...

The war started and 50 of Charles Wesley Borders' classmates went to Canada to join the RCAF [Annotator's Note: Royal...

When the ceremony was over [Annotators Note: the Japanese surrender ceremony on 2 September 1945] the sky was filled...

Frank V. Tarkington [Annotator's Note: a radioman in the US Navy] got a message from the Naval Air Station [Annotator's...

While James Newsom was aboard the Cole [Annotator's Note: USS Cole (DD-155)], he slept back aft by the engineers. That...

Pedro Parra feels that most veterans of the war did not talk too much about it. The young people have no idea what it...

Al Currier was able to learn to operate a tank [Annotator's Note: M3 Stuart light tank] when the Army sent 20 prewar...

Dr. Robert Beynon thinks the war changed him. He was right out of high school. He learned that you always have a boss....

Orville Bethard was attending Washington High School when he learned about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in...

[Annotator's Note: Don Daniels entered the service in February 1944.] When he reported on the last day of the month, he...

Without any time to become acquainted with anyone, Aloysius "Al" Arend was put on a ship bound for combat in the...

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