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William Disanza is not positive about everything but he thinks the Great Depression could never repeat itself. Disanza...

After one mission, Sandford Robert Willford [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the 9th Fighter Squadron, 49th...

Lester Shapiro left the United States from California. Ninety percent of the men got seasick on the boat. When he left...

Lester Shapiro was in a combat engineering outfit [Annotator's Note: 209th Engineer Combat Battalion] and was the first...

In Iraq, John Alison spotted a B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber] flying overhead. He...

Herbert Clyde Saylor [Annotator's Note: a waist gunner with the 436th Bombardment Squadron, 7th Bombardment Group, 10th...

Crump was only aware that the Depression was a tragedy. Times were hard. Crump’s dad was unemployed half of the time....

Gus Gikas was in India when he heard that the Germans had surrendered. Later, he heard of the Japanese surrender. Gikas...

In June 1943, Joseph McGuire was sent to India. The day before he left, his colonel admitted he had been trying to keep...

John Hever noted that when they got to Seattle, Washington, there was no parade. The returning soldiers and sailors...

Samuel Spector recalled hearing of the war in Europe ending and the atomic bombs being dropped. He was in Burma when he...

Robert Offenbacher did not want to stay in the Army. He had his last meal in the Army at Indiantown Gap [Annotator’s...

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