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There was a set procedure for ditching an airplane which they had practiced before. Everyone except the pilot and...

[Annotator's Note: Clifford Suthern Hayes returned home after completing occupation duty in Europe]. Clifford Suthern...

Alois Kopp was aboard the USS Houston (CA-30) defending Java when the ship was sunk. He survived and was taken prisoner...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Haffner served in the Army as a truck driver in Company A, 307th Airborne Engineer Battalion...

Eben Smith was born in August 1923 in Pasadena, California. He remembers his childhood as being unremarkable; his...

Walter Bala was born Walter Baloski in September 1923 and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. His parents were Polish...

John L. Cowan's ancestors came from the western part of Scotland. He was born December 1927 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Donald Lewis what he recalls of hearing of news of the war when growing up.]...

Wallace Hurley missed his bed most of all while he was in combat. The rain was heavy in France. Foxholes filled up so...

Richard Henry Hamilton was born in September 1922 in Brattleboro, Vermont with three brothers and one sister. His...

Towards the end of the war, Germans were surrendering by the thousands to William F. Bielec and his unit [Annotator's...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Wallace Yip, Sr. what it felt like to hear the news of the Japanese attack on...

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