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Lawrence Wulf enlisted in the US Army Air Force. He was sent to Victory Field in Vernon, Texas. His instructor was...

Charles Brooks was born in Dallas, Texas. Life in the Great Depression was difficult. His mother had been widowed when...

Looking back on the war, Peter Gallo said World War 2 was a "necessary evil," and he did what he had to do. He believes...

Walter Broll was told by one of the officers on the Grace Abbott that he should go to the English aid station at the...

George Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) participated in the shelling of Shuri Castle during the Battle of...

Edward Riedl thought the people [Annotator's Note: he is referring to the people on Leyte, Philippines] seemed...

Walter Bud Gafford [Annotator's Note: while serving aboard the USS Maryland (BB-46)] witnessed combat off Okinawa [...

Benjamin Albert Glusing was born in February 1916. He was born in southeastern Kansas on a farm near the town of...

Emmett Guderian's Navy career gave him all kinds of new experiences, from world travel to intense emotions. He...

When Frank Stewart's group arrived at the Tenaru River [Annotator's Note: actually, the Ilu River, on 21 August 1942]...

Still just a "number," Carl Rieman wound up at the Marine Corps Air Station in Opelika, Florida, the only ensign among...

After high school in San Francisco, California, Peter Paret entered the University of California at Berkley. He...

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