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Alex Vraciu and the other members of his squadron were in their ready room. It was known that this was going to be...

Robert "Bob" Lowry was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in August 1926. He had three...

Curt Simmons was a member of the US Navy Armed Guard. He was born on a farm outside of Walters, Oklahoma and was a farm...

David Foerster was in the Azores when the war ended in Europe and Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano...

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

Crain believes that it is important to have museums such as The World War II Museum [Annotator's Note: The National...

Edward Thomas Toole thought transitioning to the Army was easy. He was a commissioned officer. It was interesting to...

William Leo Spaetgens and his Navy crewmates aboard the Liberty Ship SS Leslie M. Shaw (MC-0440) were all new to the...

When he was told that he would be trained aboard ship as a gunner, Robert Fitz was "mystified." He arrived at the main...

Anthony Bianconi [Annotator's Note:a musician and ammunition loader on the USS Philadelphia (CL-41)] went from North...

Alois Kopp was born on a farm in May 1918 near Raleigh in Grant County, North Dakota. Times were good right after World...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer went to Mobile, Alabama to board his assigned ship - the Landing Ship, Tank USS LST-502...

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