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James Read Kirk got out of the war as a staff sergeant in September 1945. He immediately went to college. He used the...

Bruno S. Rinas began working on a rented farm and eventually got better. He believes that if you leave many things...

Irving Baum [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] was told to put on his clothes and was taken out of solitary [...

Before the atomic bomb was dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on 6 August 1945 and...

Jack H. Bleuler served as a tail gunner on a B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber] with...

While working on a road, Ben Steele would see men covered with mosquitos. They did not have mosquito nets to sleep with...

Virgil Faust was a prisoner of war [Annotator's Note: in Stalag XVII-B, Austria] during World War 2. Towards the end of...

Arnol Sellars was in the hospital when President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President...

Lloyd Burns was forced to walk with other prisoners for seven days. They slept in barns at night and traveled during...

Henderson's outfit was hit by enemy fighters pretty heavy on one mission. His plane was not hit. It was a long mission...

Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. was assigned to the 561st Bombardment Squadron, 388th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force as a...

Charles “Chuck” Wisher was based on Tinian [Annotator’s Note: as a crewman on a Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy...

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