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Warren J. Haslauer's lasting memory of World War 2 is how damned unnecessary the whole thing was. It was a colossal...

Dee Wayne White recalled when VE-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945] was announced and was...

James H. "Jim" Pritchard's unit [Annotator's Note: 28th Infantry Regiment, 5th Marine Division] was sent to Sasebo on...

James “Jim” R. Boyd was born in January 1921 in Long Beach, California while his parents were there on vacation....

John McGlohon was born in June 1923 in Guilford County, North Carolina where he lived for the first six months of his...

When Hersey Goodwin was discharged, it was after the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

Revisiting the time of his enlistment in the Marine Corps, Floyd Fogg said he signed up before he finished high school...

During the war, Aaron Baumgarten worried less about meeting up with the Japanese than he was of coming to a bad end...

John Mikus, Jr. took a ship zig-zagging [Annotator's Note: a naval anti-submarine maneuver] across [Annotator's Note:...

Jack D. Owen’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he participated in the commissioning of the USS Colusa...

Philip Curran does not know what he thought [Annotator's Note: about the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on...

Joseph DeMott [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war of the Japanese] left the war feeling that we are all human beings...

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