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David Foerster was born in Jacksonville [Annotator's Note: Jacksonville, Florida] in July 1923. He grew up there. He...

Jack Madden was born in Troy, New York in 1924. He is a lifetime resident of Troy. Troy was a good town in which to...

Edward Thomas Toole wanted to join the Naval Air Force but he could not make it. The Navy appealed to him more than any...

It was while operating out of Cherbourg in August [Annotator’s Note: Cherbourg, France in August 1944] that Solis “Sol...

Charles Taylor was a secret serviceman after World War 2. He married in 1954 to his first wife and remarried after her...

Joseph Brannan returned to Melville, Rhode Island as a PT boat instructor [Annotator's Note: at the Motor Torpedo Boat...

Harold Beal did not want to stay in the Navy. He had PTSD [Annotator's Note: post-traumatic stress disorder; a mental...

Gerald Rupert was scheduled to go to the Pacific prior the dropping of the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear...

Alois Kopp and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] left Saigon on a boozy flight to Calcutta. The POWs...

Robert Martin went to Europe as the radio operator on the USS LST-515. It was cold. Everyone had to stand watch. He...

Leon Schafer is certain the war affected his life afterwards. Number one, he never left his wife. When he got home, he...

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