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Nicholas J. Zuras thinks it important that students today know something about what happened during World War 2....

W. P. “Bill” Allen was assigned to the USS LST-523 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] which hit a mine not far the...

Alex Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group was...

Jack Raskoph was born in Paterson, New Jersey in July 1926. He thinks World War 2 saved his life. Paterson was not an...

Every trial draws criticism, according to Whitney Harris, but he knows of no significant criticisms of the conduct of...

[Annotator’s Note: There is a person assisting the interviewee with answering Interviewer’s questions throughout the...

The first ship Curt Simmons served aboard was the old Panamanian flagged ship El Murante [Annotator's Note: unsure of...

Kerama Retto [Annotator's Note: Kerama Islands off of Okinawa] was used as a staging area for the destroyers going out...

Irvin C. Klimas is not sure the war itself changed him. Changing his life to go to the Navy for 38 months gave him a...

After serving in World War 2 in the Navy, Charles Taylor served with the Secret Service for over 25 years, from...

Fred Arthur Balfour [Annotator's Note: SHAEF – Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force] was going to be sent...

William Leo Spaetgens was changed by World War 2. He hated school with a passion. After making it to the tenth grade,...

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