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Ben Steele knew things were getting tense when he was sent overseas. When he got to Hawaii, he received orders to go to...

James Patterson was called up on 23 February 1943. He was sent to boot camp with a bunch of other reservists. They...

At 19 Thatcher finished high school and enlisted in the US Army Air Corps on December 3rd, 1940. Thatcher was sworn in...

Claud Neal Fristoe, Jr. arrived in New Guinea at an airbase formed out of the jungle [Annotator's Note: he was a tail...

Malcolm Ernest has traveled all over the world. He enjoyed Puerto Rico more than anything else. They have great bass...

In 1940, Alfred A. Lingo was activated into the Army for one year at Hamilton Field [Annotator's Note: now Hamilton Air...

Kenneth A. Lafleur was born in May 1923 in Ville Platte [Annotator's Note: Ville Platte Louisiana]. Before the war, he...

William Smith was born in Ashland, Kentucky in March 1922. His dad was a doctor who was a surgeon in World War 1. The...

Fiske Hanley II, a Special Prisoner of the Kempeitai [Annotator's Note: Kenpeitai, also called Kempeitai; military...

When Selwyn Gilmore was in Tucson [Annotator's Note: Tucson, Arizona], there was a WAC [Annotator's Note: Women's Army...

Harvey Lee Bishop [Annotator’s Note: pilot in the 457th Fighter Squadron, 506th Fighter Group in the Pacific Theater of...

John Elliott adjusted back to civilian life easily. He made up his mind that he would use the G.I. Bill to go back to...

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