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Bruce McCormick was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania and lived there until 1939 when they moved to Chesapeake, Virginia....

Ira Schilling was born in June 1924 in Saratoga, Texas. His parents separated when he was very young and he moved to...

Dupuy remembers times being hard during the Depression. They always had food to eat, but there were certain things that...

Jack H. Bleuler served as a tail gunner on a B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber] with...

Harold Buell was on the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-5)] only a brief time before being reassigned. He...

O’Neil Ducharme’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was being assigned to guard duty at Shangri-La, known today...

Noah Lewis remembers the people on Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] were friendly towards black people....

When he returned to the United States, William Goldsborough was mustered out of Fort Meade [Annotator's Note: Fort...

At the first prisoner of war camp, Pearson Riddle had to work hauling earth and material in a giant cart. Riddle did...

Mervin Jensen was ready for discharge. They were unloading a ship that had oxygen cylinders on it. They were used for...

When the Japanese assaulted Wake Island the second time, Walter Bowsher was ordered to destroy his antiaircraft battery...

Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade went to Norfolk, Virginia, where he picked up his ship. The ship held four LCMs [Annotator's...

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