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After the kamikaze hit the ship it was the end of the war for the crew. She came back to the states on her own power....

William Leo Spaetgens and his Navy crewmates aboard the Liberty Ship SS Leslie M. Shaw (MC-0440) were all new to the...

Herbert W. Ridyard joined the 94th Division [Annotator's Note: Ridyard served on a heavy machine gun crew in Company H...

Robert "Bob" Livingston volunteered for service with the US Army Air Force on 4 September 1942. He was sent to Camp...

George Beaugh was born in June 1922 in Opelousas, Louisiana. He was one of six siblings. His parents were farmers....

After he returned to the United States, Dr. Thomas Fitzpatrick was discharged from the military. He took advantage of...

[Annotator's Note: Philip Whitman was captured after bailing out of his Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber and...

Joe Crandall experienced the most difficult combat when his unit [Annotator’s Note: the 635th Tank Destroyer Battalion...

Thomas Ballew likes history, he likes people, and he likes to travel. In July 1945 Sergeant Smith, who was a member of...

Asked to describe his worst mission, Carl Koone recalled a long one that started normal and had proceeded on course...

Daniel Samuelson was born in January 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He had a brother and a sister. His father was a...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Gale Ammerman to describe 17 September 1944, the start of Operation Market...

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