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David Thomason used the G.I. Bill in 1950 after having just gotten married. He went back to farming several acres of...

Charles "Chuck" Wisher went through basic training at Sheppard Field in Wichita, Texas. Training was good, but tough....

Lloyd Guillory was born in Berwick, Louisiana in 1925 and lived there until 1935. He had three older sisters. In 1935,...

According to Peter Paret, the great Prussian philosopher of war Carl von Clausewitz tried to understand war with a...

Walter Bowsher was sent to Hokkaido, Japan to a prisoner of war, or POW, camp. He arrived at Hakodate Number 2 prison...

After the landings on Leyte, Philip Nelson returned to Hawaii. He was assigned to an amphibious training base, ATB-900...

Within a day of arriving at the submarine base James Allen was given orders to report to the USS Wahoo (SS-238). He...

The most memorable experience of World War 2 for Carroll George was the fountain of black crude oil in the crew's...

Joseph Burrell was born in Toledo, Ohio in February 1922. His family moved to Detroit [Annotator's Note: Detroit,...

Benjamin Albert Glusing's friends operated the prisoner of war stockade on New Caledonia. Glusing liked to visit his...

Mark Maynard entered the Navy and initially had training in Idaho and then Illinois. While he was at the second...

Harold Buell attended Parsons College in Iowa [Annotator's Note: Fairfield, Iowa] on an athletic scholarship. He was an...

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