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John Votrobeck likes to think the war did not change him. The training he went through honed his skills, particularly...

Ferrier was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts. His father died and was buried on his 13th birthday. His...

It was Walter Bank's first time in the Pacific, and he found it "different." Few Japanese spoke English, and he had to...

Robert Savage was assigned as the radio man on the USS Springfield (CL-66), which received orders to escort a heavy...

There was a lot more going on in Korea [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953] for Philip Curran,...

Jack D. Owen was inducted into the Navy [Annotator’s Note: in 1944] in Tyler, Texas, and then boarded a train to San...

Phineas Stevens feels it is absolutely important that future generations continue to study World War 2. It was horrible...

Ray Felts went to Idaho for basic training, and hoped he would get to work on a submarine, but at six-foot-four his...

Cass Phillips got into a ferry squadron after he returned home. He flew all kinds of planes he never could before. He...

Salvador Guercia tells the tale of how he went with friends to see a guy that made corn liquor on Leyte [Annotator's...

Jack Leaming was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1919. When he was three months old, his mother moved to Wildwood...

Randall Edwards likened the old Chinese army camp where he was held prisoner to a group of American-style hog houses....

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