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Wallace Spencer was in Sampson, New York [Annotator's Note: Naval Training Station Sampson in Sampson, New York] for a...

Bruce McCormick was in a convoy when the war ended. The fleets mustered in the Philipines. Then they got together to go...

[Annotator's Note: George Colburn and the 3rd Marine Division went ashore on Iwo Jima, Japan on 23 February 1945 and...

Orville Bethard was attending Washington High School when he learned about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in...

Leo William Schmittgens was finally able to return home [Annotator's Note: after seven months of occupation duty in...

Joseph Townsend was born in April 1926 in Shreveport, Louisiana. He grew up in Shreveport. He had two brothers and two...

Robert Addison was born in Akron, Ohio in December 1922. Growing up he was very athletic and played many different...

[Annotator's Note: This clip starts mid-conversation. Jacklyn Lucas is saying that he had skin taken from his butt and...

Andrew Leblanc was shipped to the Philippines. He lived in a pup tent [Annotator's Note: also called a shelter-half,...

Charles Gubish managed to have some fun when he had time off. There was a food bank [Annotator's Note: during the...

Phoutrides took part in the Normandy invasion. He knew what was happening but couldn't understand the enormity of the...

Dr. Robert Beynon thinks the war changed him. He was right out of high school. He learned that you always have a boss....

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