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That was the end of combat for Harold DeForest. After DeForest got out of the hospital he was supposed to go back to...

James W. Metcalf’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was flying in combat and the chance of not making it back....

Joseph DeMott worked in the farming fields, dug trenches, and built fences as a prisoner of war [Annotator's Note: in...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Werner walked out of Austria in August 1938 and made it by train to Geneva, Switzerland.]...

When he was on shore leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] in occupied Japan,...

Thomas Edward Pugh made it to Washington the day Germany surrendered [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May...

Thomas Crosby had bad asthma as a child, so while he was living in the internment camp, he slept in a bed by the window...

For Earl Williams, the war liberated Black people a great deal. There were the Tuskegee Airman [Annotator's Note:...

When activity became concentrated at Guadalcanal, they [Annotator's Note: James Morehead and the rest of the 8th...

Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Philippines] was a very beautiful city from the outside to Herbert Yudenfriend. There...

Bailey has seen the Okinawan civilian jumping off of cliffs on television. It puzzles Bailey how two Okinawan women...

After the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: the surrender was announced by Japanese Emperor Hirohito on 15 August...

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