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Stewart Bass never crashed a plane but discusses an incident in Opa-locka, Florida when he was a aboard a TBM [...

Paul Bannai interrogated Japanese soldiers and read Japanese documents during the war. When the war ended, Bannai was...

Daniel J. Lawler deployed to the Pacific in November 1943. He felt sufficiently trained. Training was hell, but he used...

Leonard Brooks got up to go to school on Monday [Annotator's Note: 8 December 1941] morning and that is when he and his...

Frank Stewart was in the hospital on Espiritu Santos. After about ten days, he decided to go down the hall to the...

Louis John Walter departed New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] on the James Smith [Annotator's Note: SS...

Harold “Hal” Leith was given a good rank [Annotator’s Note: in March, 1946, as an employee of the SSU, or Strategic...

Gerald V. West was born in Glens Falls, New York in October 1919. His family owned a farm of about 140 acres and West's...

The next morning, Jack Yusen was heading down to get some food when the call to battle stations came over the intercom...

Walter Broll saw chaos the next morning after the German attack on the port of Bari, Italy. Live and dead personnel...

The war itself is Alvin von Frisch's worse memory of that time. He hated to see people die. He lost good friends who...

Samuel Malta remembers funny occasions during the war but he also remembers being frightened by the combat. When faced...

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