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After they left France, Harry Bell's wife joined him and they toured Switzerland and Germany. They flew into Frankfurt...

Philip Whitman went overseas on a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship]. He went...

On 10 September 1944, R.M. Wilkes was sent to Camp Shanks [Annotator's Note: near Orangetown, New York] and two days...

Robert "Bob" Lowry left the Navy as a Seaman 1st Class. When he was young in Greenwood [Annotator's Note: Greenwood,...

Mancel Kirk survived the war well. He did not get shell shock like some others did. The worst thing he suffered was the...

World War 2 changed Chester J. Butcher's life very positively. His experience of war and being a prisoner of war taught...

Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld had a horrible experience in the English Channel. He, along with many other troops, got very...

To Capers Andrews Holmes, Jr., Colonel Shower [Annotator's Note: US Army Air Forces Colonel Albert J. Shower] as an...

Bill Connelly was born in January 1925 in Philadelphia [Annotator's Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]. He had a half-...

John Singlaub had a problem getting into the POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camp on Hainan Island. The...

Lawrence Angst's first experience with combat was seeing the dead bodies piled up to be registered. They left and then...

Before being discharged from the hospital, Bob Miksa [Annotator’s Note: Robert Miksa] returned to his unit by lifting a...

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