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Howard Robert Charles was born in Picher, Oklahoma. With environmental issues there, the mines were closed. His father...

Lawrence Brooks feels that young people should learn about World War 2. Much can be learned at The National WWII Museum...

Louis Zamperini qualified for the 1936 Olympics and went to New York to compete with Don Lash [Annotator's Note: Donald...

Still in the Philippines, Clem Thrift's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Holt (DE-706)] moved on to bombarding the...

As James Paul Lynch looks back, there were not really normal families back in that time [Annotator's Note: the time of...

Frederick Haack and about nine others were put in a big, steel cylinder [Annotator's Note: during high-altitude, pilot...

Leo V. Strausbaugh was boarding a train, on his way overseas, worrying about the fact that his folks would not know...

Ray Dennis Irby stayed overseas from 1943 until December 1945. He was in Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan] when...

Paul J. Murphy [Annotator’s Note: a fire controlman aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] sailed to San Francisco [...

William Lutz was on Leyte [Annotator’s Note: Leyte, Philippines]. He was in the hospital when he heard about the bombs...

James W. Metcalf was assigned as a turret gunner with the Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13) on the USS Franklin (CV-13). When...

When Paul Lawrence arrived in New Guinea, the fighting had gone further up the coast. They did see some Bettys [...

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