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Ari Phoutrides was born in Seattle in 1925. His father was a priest who was moved around the country often.After high...

Ray Eshelman was never interested in a military career. He had a couple of choices at discharge. He could join the...

Richard R. Ruess believes it is significant to have The National WWII Museum [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans,...

John Nicholas fought in World War 2 because the guys before him had signed up so he had to do so also. He had to fight...

Daniel J. Lawler [Annotator's Note: serving with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division in...

O’Neil Ducharme was born in February 1925 near Elizabeth Falls, Maine. His parents immigrated to Maine from Canada in...

Jack Leaming and other Allied prisoners of war, POWs, were forced to work by the Japanese after capture. Work details...

Claude Taylor returned from China and disembarked in San Francisco. He returned to Louisiana where he was discharged...

Richard H. Kerr's most memorable experience is when a kamikaze [Annotator's Note: Japanese Special Attack Units, also...

The most wonderful story that Frank V. Tarkington [Annotator's Note: a radioman in the US Navy] can tell is that he was...

Ervin Markwald [Annotator’s Note: drafted into the Army at age 18] did 17 weeks of basic training at Fort Riley, Kansas...

Fred Wesighan has visited New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] but has never been to The National...

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