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In 1944, Kenneth A. Lafleur and the 22nd Bombardment Group, 5th Air Force were sent to an airfield in Finschhafen, New...

Charles Brooks would have breakfast before dawn onboard the ship. He would then look to see his assignment for the day...

Gordon Tadewaldt was born in June 1926 in Aurora, Illinois. He was one of five children. When his father lost his job...

Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: was an American child prisoner in the Philippines during World War 2] and...

By 1944 Harold Ward had added some stripes to his arm. Ward was transferred to an AK ship, a big liberty ship [...

Most of William Earl Gast and his unit's [Annotator's Note: Company A, 743rd Tank Battalion, 30th Infantry Division]...

[Annotator's Note: Video and sound freeze throughout this clip.] Leo Bednarczyk was born in Chicago, Illinois in June...

James Paul Lynch was on the Wainwright [Annotator's Note: USS Wainwright (DD-419)] until June 1942 in the North...

Frank M. Heuer Sr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in October 1923. He grew up with three sisters and one brother....

Clem Thrift thought the destroyer escort he served on [Annotator's Note: the USS Holt (DE-706)] was a great ship. It...

Sidney Grossman was discharged as a Yeoman 3rd Class on 22 June 1946 and went to the University of Connecticut [...

Following the war's conclusion, Claude Taylor sailed aboard LSM-352 [Annotator's Note: LSM stands for Landing Ship,...

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