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Ernest Cowell was born in January 1927 in Los Angeles, Hollywood [Annotator's Note: Los Angeles, California]. His...

Next, Leo V. Strausbaugh's unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 6th Ranger Battalion] joined the rest of his battalion at...

The B-29s carrying the second atomic bomb were overhead circling Yawata. The crew of the B-29 carrying the bomb was...

Kenneth Beard's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being a switchboard operator. He chose to serve because he...

Ervin Markwald served with the 77th Division [Annotator's Note: 305th Infantry Regiment, 77th Infantry Division] during...

Samuel Malta and his company [Annotator's Note: Anti-Tank Company, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division] in...

James Billingsley got extra points for his medals towards coming home. He went into a depot and had to take everything...

Benjamin Albert Glusing was born in February 1916. He was born in southeastern Kansas on a farm near the town of...

Robert M. Solomon was on deck when they got a submarine. He had to hold on, or he would have gone overboard when the...

The war did not have much of an effect on Walter Jacobs. He has never had a problem talking about it like a lot of guys...

Virginia Wilterdink's most memorable experience of the war was hearing the news that the Japanese had bombed Pearl...

Charles Nathan Lane’s first battle was in the Philippines [Annotator’s Note: as part of the 197th Coast Artillery...

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