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Norman Ikari recalls Pearl Harbor very well. It was a Sunday morning and Ikari was sitting in his house in East Los...

Mary Frances Dorothy Wood was still in college and was delighted when the war ended in Europe. It was terrible to learn...

Clayton Kelly Gross had to make an emergency landing on Omaha Beach before he went home. He flew a mission over the...

Melvin Linkous had an intelligent man in his company [Annotator's Note: Cannon Company, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd...

Harold Roed knew he would be going into the service once the war started, just not when or how. His father worked for...

Harley Reynolds recognizes that the invasion [Annotators Note: the invasion of Sicily] was fairly easy in terms of...

Dr. Stanley Jaffe's basic training at Camp Barkeley, Texas [Annotator's Note: in Abilene, Texas] was straightforward....

John Raaen saw an unbelievable number of ships on the morning of D-Day. There were thousands of ships all spaced apart...

Melvin Dahlberg was born in August 1924 in St. Paul, Minnesota, just days after his parents had moved there from Sweden...

After the war, Ernest Barber went back to school using the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...

Harry George Paege, Junior had his 21st birthday in the service. He was a bugler. He got a letter that said his mother...

Samuel W. Smith was sent to California for preflight school. They were put on a troop train for Santa Ana, California....

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