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John Alison was at one of the RAF [Annotator's Note: Royal Air Force] bases when he got orders to report to London....

Going overseas was quite the adventure for Sherman. Sherman stopped at numerous points throughout the war. He was a...

Herbert Clyde Saylor's [Annotator's Note: a waist gunner with the 436th Bombardment Squadron, 7th Bombardment Group,...

Gus Gikas was in India when he heard that the Germans had surrendered. Later, he heard of the Japanese surrender. Gikas...

In June 1943, Joseph McGuire was sent to India. The day before he left, his colonel admitted he had been trying to keep...

John Hever noted that when they got to Seattle, Washington, there was no parade. The returning soldiers and sailors...

Samuel Spector recalled hearing of the war in Europe ending and the atomic bombs being dropped. He was in Burma when he...

Robert Offenbacher did not want to stay in the Army. He had his last meal in the Army at Indiantown Gap [Annotator’s...

Joseph Silvia was born in April 1922 in Newport, Rhode Island. He was exposed to the military at age 12, by a soldier...

On a rainy day William Disanza would work around the house. He did a variety of odd jobs with odd solutions and trick...

Perry Garten was asked by the commander of the 1st Air Commando Group gliders at their assembly area at Lālāghāt if he...

Upon docking in Melbourne, Australia, Marshall Burnett, and his shipmates got the news that President Franklin D....

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