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After listening to Walter Winchell [Annotator's Note: Walter Winchell, American newspaper columnist] on the radio...

James Pringle signed up to fight in the war. The majority of them [Annotator's Note: Black Americans] had. It was not...

The talk among the men about their home life was very interesting and mostly wholesome, according to Richard McEwen. He...

After being stationed in the Aleutian Islands [Annotator's Note: Alaska], Arthur McHardy was sent to Newport, Rhode...

Wilbur Rogers laughs at remembering the reward for picking up a downed pilot: ice cream. For each man a ship picked up...

Lincoln Piazzo was born in December 1918 in Reno, Nevada. His father was an immigrant, working in the transportation of...

Paul Ignatius was born in Glendale, California in November 1920. He is very proud of his hometown because many famous...

John Singlaub was nervous about parachuting into France, but, even so, his team was not ineffectual. Prior to the jump...

James Richard O'Rorke worked in the factory [Annotator's Note: in a steel mill in Ōsaka, Japan as a prisoner of war]...

Ellis Whaley was born in Lumberport, West Virginia in December 1923. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio. He went to high...

Jimmie Dyer enlisted to fight in World War 2 because he thought that the country needed to fight. He never questioned...

Charles “Chuck” Franzke’s orders were changed after the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: announced 15 August...

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