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William O’Brien remembers serving at the Panama Canal [Annotator's Note: a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific...

Paul Amrod joined the Army because his siblings had set the example, and his love of country obliged him to do his part...

Chris Carawan said the Americans were not prepared for what happened in Belgium. They didn't have food, they lived on K...

Ellis Whaley is not sure about the timing, but either before he went to Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Okinawa,...

After advanced flight training in Pensacola [Annotator's Note: Pensacola, Florida], John Sanford Gilman was sent to...

Mervin Jensen was ready for discharge. They were unloading a ship that had oxygen cylinders on it. They were used for...

Stationed in the Philippines before the war, James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a member of Signal Corps Aircraft...

Jules Desloge Brown [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS PCE(R)-855] was stationed at Shanghai [Annotator's Note: Shanghai...

Claude Shannahan left Tulagi and boarded the USS Colhoun (APD-2) on the way to Guadalcanal. They had just gotten into...

Otis Kight's squadron, VF-42 [Annotator's Note: Fighting Squadron 42 (VF-42), USS Yorktown (CV-5)] had the bulk of the...

When he returned to the United States, William Goldsborough was mustered out of Fort Meade [Annotator's Note: Fort...

Mahlen Arledge received his draft notice in July 1943 and went into service the next month. He elected to go into the...

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