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

George Rudloff was born in San Francisco, California in 1923 and grew up there and in Palo Alto. His father started a...

The last time Richard Cole saw the old man [Annotator's Note: USAF General James H. Doolittle] was in 1992. Several of...

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

Herbert Saylor was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania in September 1925. He was brought up during the Depression [Annotator'...

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

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

[Annotator's Note: Robert Liles served in the USAAF and flew Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft with the 16th...

When they finally stopped they were a couple feet away from a hut. The next morning there were people working on the...

Upon docking in Melbourne, Australia, Marshall Burnett, and his shipmates got the news that President Franklin D....

Joseph Silvia was born in April 1922 in Newport, Rhode Island. He was exposed to the military at age 12, by a soldier...

Carl Constein flew as a pilot for the air operations of the CBI campaign [Annotator’s Note: China-Burma-India Theater...

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