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Walter Bank's family lived on a small farm, and wasn't greatly affected by the Great Depression. They never talked...

Alfred Raymond Mosher was born in December 1921 in Adrian, Missouri. He recalled the Great Depression and how lots of...

John Mikus, Jr. took a ship zig-zagging [Annotator's Note: a naval anti-submarine maneuver] across [Annotator's Note:...

When Charles Stix went into Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] on a Higgins boat [Annotator's Note: Landing...

Samuel Malta and the men in combat were just kids who were 18 or 19 years old. The combat troops felt they were...

On the morning of 3 February 1945, a mortar shell dropped in the rice paddy alongside Theodore Pavlovich and he took...

The Germans would use flares at night and drop them over the American convoy. At night this would illuminate the fleet...

Richard O'Hara had one brother three and a half years older than him who went in the Marines earlier than O'Hara. He...

While talking with the man, Jones's copilot showed up. The men felt better seeing each other.The young man had a hand...

Frank V. Tarkington was fortunate to have a mild and unexcitable experience in the war. He got a break by having...

Monroe Scherer took advantage of the G.I Bill and went to NYU [Annotator's Note: New York University, New York, New...

Louis Block had to serve KP [Annotator's Note: kitchen patrol or kitchen police] duty for 30 days when he got to Hawaii...

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