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The next morning Alex Vraciu and the other guerillas headed north up the national highway. They took a bugler and...

Thomas J. Smith, Junior was born in June 1924 in Schenectady, New York. He was a senior in high school and had just...

Randall Edwards was born in July 1917 near Pine Bluff, Wyoming. His family lived on ranches in various parts of the...

Melvin Munch had a 15 day leave following his basic training in the United States Navy. It took four days each way for...

John Elliott felt that the B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber] was an excellent...

Sumner Whitten received orders to return to Ewa [Annotator's Note: following the Battle of Midway]. He got aboard a B-...

Other close calls John Cassidy remembers included a night when two bombers flew so low, in diversionary tactics while...

After the war ended, William Beaman was sent back to San Francisco, California on the USS Flasher (SS-249), then...

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

Connick recalls the atmosphere of New Orleans during the war. He remembers men being replaced by stars in the window [...

Victor K. Carman was born in April 1927 in Woodmere, New York on Long Island. His parents divorced when he was three...

While Robert Frederick Reed was stationed in El Centro [Annotator’s Note: El Centro, California before being deployed...

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