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Samuel Spector recalled hearing of the war in Europe ending and the atomic bombs being dropped. He was in Burma when he...

Sandford Robert Willford [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the 9th Fighter Squadron, 49th Fighter Group, Fifth...

Courtland Claus will never forget what the Japanese did [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...

Returning to the United States on a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship], Richard...

Lester Shapiro was in a combat engineering outfit [Annotator's Note: 209th Engineer Combat Battalion] and was the first...

In the hospital they were treated very nice and given so much food that they couldn't eat it all. There was also...

The next day after a good sleep, the Herbert Gross and his shipmate left the village at dawn [Annotator's Note: after...

Revis Dale Haslett was born in July 1922 in Brownstown, Illinois. He lived in Illinois until after he graduated high...

Alvin Callender was based at Shrewsbury, England, and he recalled one afternoon when the sky filled with Spitfires [...

Joseph McGuire was sent to India in 1943. The British controlled everything in India, so he had to get permission from...

Henderson flew as a tail gunner on a B-17 [Annotators Note: American B-17 Flying Fortress bomber] until his last...

Herbert Saylor was drafted shortly after graduating from high school. His father and sister brought Saylor to the train...

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