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After Norman Elliott was discharged from the Navy, he did not go back to school. He joined the 52-20 club [Annotator's...

James Bollich was liberated by the Russians. Near the end of the war, the Japanese put out an order for all POWs [...

James Stewart Rosenbaum heard about the surrender of Germany while he was fighting in Okinawa [Annotator's Note:...

Harold Zeringer returned to New Orleans in March 1946 and embarked on a concentrated law school effort. He took three...

Remi Kidder was born in 1926 in Arnaudville, Louisiana. Raised on a farm, Kidder's father was always busy with the...

News that the war had ended seemed to daze Randall Edwards and his fellow prisoners of war initially. Once they got...

Walter Bud Gafford feels many young people do not know about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on...

Charles Graves Chauncey was born in April 1923 in Chanute, Kansas. He went through the school system, went to Kansas...

George Joseph Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) were anchored too far away from the surrender ceremony to be...

Lloyd Dendy was the company bootlegger on Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu, Palau]. They made a still out of aluminum...

James William Grimes was assigned as a mess cook. He was very young [Annotator's Note: he was only 16 years old, but...

The locals in the Philippines loved Paul Sparacino and the other sailors [Annotator's Note: who served aboard the USS...

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