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William Leo Spaetgens was changed by World War 2. He hated school with a passion. After making it to the tenth grade,...

W. P. “Bill” Allen did not suffer from post-traumatic stress from his war experience. However, just recently he had a...

Carl C. Bartels, M.D. [Annotator's Note: Doctor of Medicine] was part of a GROPAC Unit [Annotator's Note: GROPAC Units...

Gerald Rupert was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania and grew up about 40 miles south of there [Annotator's Note: in South...

Alois Kopp was in Pocatello, Idaho in the Civilian Conservation Camp when the Navy recruited him. He was sent to San...

Robert Martin wanted to join the Navy because his friend had gone in before he did. He was a year or two older than him...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was on occupation duty in Kagoshima, Japan after the war ended.] The invasion [...

Herbert Fontenot found a sweetheart after his discharge from the Navy. She was similar in background to him. They fell...

Fred Arthur Balfour was born in August 1923, in Glens Falls, New York. He lived there until he was 12 years old. When...

Charlie Lomax [Annotator's Note: a Naval officer in a special communications task force in the Naval Amphibious Forces...

Nicholas J. Zuras thinks it important that students today know something about what happened during World War 2....

Alex Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group was...

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