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[Annotator's Note: Howard Warren Stokes served in the 27th Infantry Division. Soon after the war's end, he was sent...

When the ceremony was over [Annotators Note: the Japanese surrender ceremony on 2 September 1945] the sky was filled...

When they [Annotators Note: James Smith and the rest of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion] went back to New Zealand, they...

There were plenty of men with shell shock [Annotator's Note: psychological disturbance caused by prolonged exposure to...

It took five and a half days for James Bollich to reach Camp O'Donnell [Annotator's Note: American instillation used as...

Charles Wesley Borders retired from the United States Air Force on 1 September 1971. He got to be a Wing Commander...

On the 17th of June [Annotator's Note: 17 June 1945 on Okinawa] they moved back off of Kunishi Ridge. A colonel was...

Robert Hammond didn't like the military's practice of segregation. At the time he first encountered prejudice in South...

Carroll George was born in October 1919 in Atlanta, Georgia. He grew up ten miles from Atlanta out in the country. His...

Ben Ray Bost loved getting Marines on board ship [Annotator's Note: the USS LSM-316], especially those from North...

Randall Edwards does not remember how he got "mixed up with the Russians," but he has photos that prove he did. He does...

Alvin von Frisch was born in Giessen, Germany in 1920. He began his education there but he, his mother, two sisters,...

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