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The Army had not yet finished on Leyte because of bad weather, and Clem Thrift said that in the process of readying to...

Lyle Bird asked for, and his parents granted, permission for him to enter the Navy at age 17. He attended boot camp in...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

One morning, Richard Thelen saw a plane fly over him and he knew that he was about to be rescued [Annotator's Note: USS...

Paul Sparacino's father was in the Army [Annotator's Note: during World War 2] but did not really talk about it....

Chester Hollingsworth was in the Pacific when the bombs were dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

Harper Gruber found boot camp very rough, but very beneficial in terms of his physical conditioning. After school, his...

Joseph Daquana completed submarine training in New London [Annotator’s Note: New London, Connecticut]. During his...

Merrill was aboard the Saratoga [Annotator's Note: USS Saratoga, CV-3] both times she was torpedoed.When they left...

Thomas Tizzard says that his most memorable experience of World War 2 is hard to pin down. It could be the first time...

James notes that when he shot the 5 inch guns they did not have to hit the planes directly because of the amount of...

Lowell Rodrigue had many dreams about World War 2 and cannot watch movies related to the war. He has been clinically...

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