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Forrest Villarrubia recollects climbing up a tree and being shot at as his most memorable occurrence of World War 2. [...

As the United States Armed Forces got closer to Japan, Claude Bufford Shaw felt more vindicated for the loss of his...

At the end of the war, James Thomas Womack was in the process of being transferred off the USS Rehobath (AVP-50) to...

Joseph LaNier joined the United States Navy in February 1944. African-Americans prior to 1942 were not allowed to join...

While he trained at Fort Slocum in New Rochelle, New York, Armando Galella could go home every weekend. After about a...

Archie Kelley arrived at Annapolis [Annotator's Note: United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland] and had to...

Emil Kesselman liked being a civilian and a father, and did not have any ideas of going back in the service [Annotator’...

Martin Suter was in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] when he heard about the atomic bomb strikes....

Nevin Sledge admired the SeaBees [Annotator's Note: Members of US naval construction battalions]. They did everything...

William O’Brien remembers when the skipper left. They did training on the Pacific side of the canal [Annotator's Note:...

Walter Nelson went into the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Depression. It was just about the same time that...

Gerry Jones was born in September 1926 in Logansport, Indiana. His family was badly affected by the Great Depression....

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