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Joseph Brannan was sent on a train to San Diego, California for boot camp after he enlisted in the United States Navy....

Robert Harris appreciated being an American much more after his experiences in the Second World War. He had thought...

Cecil J. V. Newton was born in March 1925 on a family farm in Highlands, Texas. He was an only child. His father was a...

Going into the Mediterranean on the SS Thomas Nelson Page is the most memorable experience for Edward Kissam. When he...

[Annotator's Note: Vernon Squire was drafted into the Army in December 1942.] Squire was given a week off and then went...

Maxwell Nelson’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was the surrender of Japan [Annotator’s Note: 15 August 1945...

Delbert Frank Wombacher was born in Lawrence, Nebraska on a farm [Annotator's Note: in October 1918]. He grew during...

Before he went in the service, Donald Evans never went to church. Over there, he prayed all the time to be kept safe....

In Joe Pigott's opinion, General Smith [Annotator's Note: US Army General Walter Bedell Smith] was "one of the best";...

Ted Winestone fled into the woods [Annotator's Note: after escaping from the ghetto in Dworzec, Poland, now Dvorets,...

Clarence Herbert Weatherwax feels he is blessed and is happy to share his story with people. He enjoys talking to...

Erik Johnsen served in the US Merchant Marine during World War 2. Thinking about the war, he says that during it he...

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