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

Joseph Hartmann remembers that by 6:30 [Annotator's Note: on the morning of D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy,...

For Robert Fitz, it was an honor to serve three years in combat areas, and is grateful that he lived through it. He...

Cecil N. Duck was born in August 1925 in Bay Minnette, Alabama, and when he was six years old, his family moved to...

The first ship Curt Simmons served aboard was the old Panamanian flagged ship El Murante [Annotator's Note: unsure of...

Kerama Retto [Annotator's Note: Kerama Islands off of Okinawa] was used as a staging area for the destroyers going out...

Anthony Bianconi feels strongly that World War 2 should be taught to youngsters today. There are guys under white...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was aboard USS LST-502 for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944.] What...

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

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

Robert Martin went to upholstery school with the GI Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment...

Charles Walker was in the Mediterranean Sea and the Soviets [Annotator's Note: Soviet Navy] had a fleet of its own...

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