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Bud Loring ended up at a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camp after making it back to the front lines. When...

Robert Gaylord Furrow felt like his service made him a better man. He thinks every young man should be given military...

Eugene Yackel had to register for the draft after he graduated from high school. He did not know what he wanted to do...

Crump was able to get a gold crown in his teeth and was able to join. This was in late 1943. Crump was told then that...

James Albert Kitts was born in August 1925 in Phoenix, Arizona. He is the oldest child with two brothers and four...

[Annotator's Note: There is a background humming noise throughout this interview.] Edwin “Pete” Goldberg reached a...

They had never seen rockets before they were attacked with them one day. A rocket hit Vincent Pale's B-24 [Annotator's...

Henry Armstrong had a few nightmares about his war experience, seeing a concentration camp, and more. It took him 15...

Oscar Johnson was taken to Frankfurt after being held in Bonn for a short time. All he gave the enemy was his name,...

When tunneling Tom, Dick, and Harry [Annotator's Note: Tom, Dick, and Harry were the codenames for the tunnels being...

Allen Porter's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he almost was killed by a landmine [Annotator's Note:...

Josephine Pescatore prayed when Cardinal Spellman gave a talk to a large group of troops before she went overseas....

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