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Alex Vraciu scored nine aerial victories during his first tour. His first kill was a Zero at Tarawa while flying with...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the time his submarine [Annotator's Note: the USS...

In 1953 Thomas Crosby enlisted in the Navy. He was competing as a diver for the University of Hawaii and attending...

Paris Tognoli was born in December 1924 in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California]. They later...

They loaded the back of their rig. They took the ballast off and put the goods in there so they did not go hungry. They...

David Lehigh was told he would be deploying overseas, but was not told where he would be going. He departed from Mather...

[Annotator's Note: Harold DeForest served in the Army as a gunner on a 60mm mortar in Company A, 1st Battalion, 129th...

James Bollich remained in Korea for about six weeks. From Korea, he took a train to Mukden, Manchuria [Annotator's Note...

Raymond Bailey was on the mess deck washing cups when he felt the first shudder caused by the bomb hit [Annotator's...

Austin H. Kiplinger took trips to Germany in 1932 and 1938. Allusions to the war effort were everywhere. In 1938, he...

William Barnes was born and raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After high school he attended Bowling Green Business...

William Earl Gast remembers the first time he changed into new clothes. He was staying in a house and slept in the...

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