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[Annotator's Note: Edgar De Pue Osgood shows a picture of the USS Iowa (BB-61) that he took through a porthole.] That...

Erwin Blonder was sent to a hospital in Illinois for his trench foot. He remembers another incident regarding his...

Rothacker Smith attended North High School in Detroit, Michigan after his family moved back to the city from the...

Once while Frank Mancuso was out with his friends, they began talking about how bad things were getting in Germany,...

[Annotator's Note: Arthur Smith left his Mediterranean duty and returned to the US from Oran, Algeria.] He landed in...

Rothacker Smith had no idea that war was in his future on the morning of 7 December 1941. Smith was working in a corn...

During the last few days of the war there was very little action. Most of the Germans were figuring out a way to...

[Annotator's Note: Joyce Sherman completed Nurses training and enlisted in the Army on 1 June 1943.] It was wartime and...

Walter Broll and the Grace Abbott left Bari, Italy and headed for the ocean. Broll and the deck crew secured the...

James Nerison was born in San Francisco. His mother and father moved down to the city of Alhambra near Los Angeles. His...

Robert Jagers was born in Chicago, Illinois in July 1922. His father passed away when he was 11 and he and his mother...

Tokuji Yoshihashi was born in January 1923 in Pasadena, California. He was one of five children. Times were tough for...

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