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Robert D. Shaner was called up 1 July 1943 to go to a school in Flagstaff, Arizona, the Arizona State Teachers College...

Jack D. Owen was inducted into the Navy [Annotator’s Note: in 1944] in Tyler, Texas, and then boarded a train to San...

Sidney Grossman remembered the day when President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd...

Clem Thrift went to Norfolk, Virginia for turboelectric training. The ship he helped commission, and on which he...

Bill Norberg took advantage of the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944...

On several occasions, Robert Lents and his fellow prisoners outmaneuvered their Japanese captors. [Annotator's Note:...

Chester Hollingsworth did not have much fun in basic training. The trainees were assigned ten to a tent. Besides...

Cass Phillips got into a ferry squadron after he returned home. He flew all kinds of planes he never could before. He...

James Thomas Womack was born in January 1921 in Naples, Texas. He was one of six children. During the Great Depression...

James Warren David recalled getting seasick occasionally, especially if the conditions were rough. After serving in the...

Jack Leaming was shipped to the Ofuna prison camp after Yokohama. Baths were in individual tubs with water heaters. The...

George Joseph Bertucci felt the war improved him because he furthered his education afterwards. He had ambition to do...

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