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Joseph Townsend wanted to join the Marine Corps. His mother objected. His father had served in the Army in the First...

Leon Griffith was in the Philippines and was hunting Japanese who were on a mountain and firing artillery shells at...

After being drafted, Jack Dunlavy went to Anniston [Annotator's Note: Anniston Army Depot in Bynum, Alabama] to the...

Gene Alair received some schooling at government expense back when he was married. He had been sent back to Harvard...

Lenwood Steglich did not want to stay in the Navy after the war. He attended Texas A...

Harry Watson went to Newport, Rhode Island [Annotator's Note: for Navy boot camp training], and couldn't understand why...

Archie Kelley had done very well in high school and had no academic problems at all [Annotator's Note: while attending...

[Annotator's Note: William Roy reviews a series of photographs he captured during the Battle of Midway in June 1942. He...

Fergus Van Wart was born in August 1926 in Dallas, Texas. He was an only child. He went to high school in Dallas and...

Baptiste feels that it is important for there to be a National World War II Museum. If they hadn't done what they did...

Emil Schoonejans was born in 1925 in West Hoboken, now Union City, New Jersey. He lived in Union City until 1942 when...

Robert Templet feels that the youth of today may not be as interested in World War 2, or even protecting their liberty...

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