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Leo William Schmittgens recalled that one day [Annotator's Note: one day while he was taking part in the Battle of...

Robert Philips came home, took advantage of the G.I. Bill and went to the University of Oregon [Annotator's Note: in...

Richard Hebert, Sr.’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was during basic training. One of the trainees suffered...

Clem Thrift said the United States was suffering under the threat of German submarine attacks, so the destroyer escorts...

In June 1950, William Jennings Bryan Harrison, Jr. was drafted into the Army for the Korean War [Annotator's Note:...

Benjamin Clark Amsden [Annotator's Note: an aviation cadet in the United States Navy] went from Pensacola [Annotator's...

For occupation duty in Japan, Albert "Al" Machaud was transferred to Hokkaido, in northern part of the county, where he...

John Mikus, Jr. left from Vella Lavella [Annotator's Note: Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands] on Higgins boats [Annotator'...

James Bowie used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was enacted...

James H. "Jim" Pritchard was born in August 1925 in Ottawa, Kansas. He grew up there. He had three sisters and two...

Thinking he would ship out the next day, Frank Campisano took the family car to be sworn into the Navy. But when he...

On 11 June 1945, Kenneth Dwight Wells and his company [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 29th Marine Regiment...

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