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Charles Taylor's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he was able to take out a German submarine. He saw...

World War II changed John McCarthy and his life tremendously. Without the war, he might have been a factory worker....

Edward Dunne's most memorable experience of the war is seeing dead people. It is bad, especially when it is a lot of...

Carl C. Bartels, M.D. [Annotator's Note: Doctor of Medicine] was changed by the war. It was an excellent experience. He...

Gerald Rupert enlisted in the Navy and went to Sampson, New York [Annotator's Note: Sampson Naval Training Base] on one...

Joseph Brannan had never ridden on a PT boat [Annotator's Note: Patrol Torpedo boat] prior to his assignment to his...

After John Edmund Murman joined the Navy, he attended boot camp and advanced training for fire control in Newport,...

Robert Martin was taught to march and thought it was stupid [Annotator's Note: in US Navy basic training]. They went to...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer received his discharge orders on 10 December 1945 while on occupation duty in Kagoshima...

Alois Kopp saw conditions improve when he and other POWs from Burma were brought to Saigon. The local Vietnamese hated...

W. P. “Bill” Allen was a Navy medic assigned to the USS LST-523 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank]. The LST had two...

Fred Arthur Balfour went into service in 1944. He went to Electrician Mate's school in Bainbridge, New York. They...

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