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Leo William Schmittgens recalled the first day on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1945], his regiment [Annotator's...

Thomas Francis Schicker had his 19th birthday at Ulithi. He became friends with Leo Schmidtkin [Annotator's Note:...

Thomas Paris learned about events by radio. He would write letters home. They had C-47s [Annotator’s Note: The Douglas...

Vaughn Whitworth boarded a troop train to Norfolk, Virginia where he loaded onto the USS James O'Hara (APA-90) and...

Following his graduation from Kings Point [Annotator's Note: the US Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York],...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Dr. Robert Beynon what it was like to be aboard a submarine being attacked with...

Jack Houston had three reasons for enlisting. The first was patriotism. The second was that all of his friends were...

John Ream remembers when liberation started that the Japanese told them to stay in the camp because it was dangerous...

Ralph Marcarelli reacted badly to inoculations when he entered the Navy at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. He missed boot...

Charles Wesley Borders served for about two months in the Louisiana Maneuvers in 1943. He and five others were sent...

Robert Akins discusses how the heroes were the ones who gave their lives 10,000 miles from home. Of the 120 men in his...

William Currier was born in Westbrook, Maine in 1926. He grew up with two brothers and was raised by his parents....

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