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Lawrence Eustis was drafted into the Army Air Corps on 20 July 1942 and sent to Alexandria, Louisiana for his...

When President Harry S. Truman said the war was ended with the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...

Grant Jiro Hirabayashi was very confused after visiting his family in an internment camp but returned to Fort Snelling...

Henderson flew as a tail gunner on a B-17 [Annotators Note: American B-17 Flying Fortress bomber] until his last...

Sandford Robert Willford [Annotator's Note: a flying instructor with the US Army Air Forces] was sent to school to...

Lester Shapiro's experience before getting to Burma [Annotator's Note: present day Myanmar], was guarding some oil...

Courtland Claus used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was...

All of the Catholic school teachers were nuns. They were not married. High school teachers in Iowa were required to be...

John Alison’s duties also resulted in him being a glider pilot despite never having flown one before. He flew a glider...

After he was discharged from the Army, Roy Uthes did not take advantage of the GI Bill. He and his wife lived with his...

Joseph McGuire was born in 1919 and the first few years of his life were lived in abject poverty. He used a local creek...

John Hever never saw any Japanese soldiers until after the war was over. They had no weapons, and were walking around...

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