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Erik Johnsen served in the US Merchant Marine during World War 2. Thinking about the war, he says that during it he...

Chester J. Butcher [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the 357th Fighter Squadron, 355th Fighter Group, 8th Air...

On 12 May 1944, there was a big air raid with 800 bombers and top cover from Hub Zemke and his wolf pack. They came...

Bradford Clark Freeman was born in Lowndes County [Annotator's Note: Lowndes County, Mississippi], and attended school...

Joseph J. Drake's service in the war was worth it. Germany and Japan probably could have controlled the world had they...

Leonard Lomell and the rest of the 2nd Ranger Battalion loaded the channel steamers a day or two before D-Day [...

Opal Grapes arrived in Scotland after about a five day voyage from the United States. She then traveled by train toward...

Leon Schafer is certain the war affected his life afterwards. Number one, he never left his wife. When he got home, he...

After John Edmund Murman joined the Navy, he attended boot camp and advanced training for fire control in Newport,...

Joseph Brannan was sent on a train to San Diego, California for boot camp after he enlisted in the United States Navy....

Emory Maurice Ornelles joined the Army at the Honolulu Armory [Annotator's Note: he had just witnessed Japanese planes...

Kenneth Barnette was assigned to the 63rd Infantry Division on a 60mm mortar [Annotator's Note: M2 60mm mortar]. He...

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