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Gerald Claassen’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was getting married because he could afford it by being an...

Harold Beal is glad he served and would do it again. Somebody must take care of the country. When he talks to children...

Freddie Ohr notes that another day LeMay [Annotators Note: USAAF then USAF General Curtis LeMay] landed and was looking...

Dr. Roscoe Brown says that the scene in the film "Red Tails" where the pilots were standing on the air field doing a...

[Annotator's Note: Philip Whitman joined the Navy on 18 August 1937.] Whitman really enjoyed the Navy and had a hard...

Paul Roach went to Kansas State University [Annotator’s Note: in Manhattan, Kansas] in the fall of 1938. He went there...

When his company [Annotator's Note: Company G, 2nd Battalion, 263rd Infantry Regiment, 66th Infantry Division] got to...

In 1936, many of Gerhard Franzky's friends joined the Hitler Youth. For them it was like the scouts [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator's Note: Edward Kissam returned from the war and had a lot of family problems to deal with.]. Kissam did use...

When the war ended, the Sway [Annotator's Note: USS Sway (AM-120)] swept mines off Formosa [Annotator's Note: Republic...

Ubert Labat remembers a time in Belgium when he was scouting and turned a corner to face a machine gun and three...

The day the war ended, Robert Engel was in a town in Germany. The manure and urine from cows were kept in the town for...

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