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While he was a prisoner, Dominic Martello was leaning over getting a head of cabbage when a German soldier came along,...

Harold Ashton's airplane had radar in it. It was very important for him to have radar, especially over water. While...

Ralph F. Lafferty traveled across the United States by train until he arrived at Newport News [Annotator's Note:...

James Read Kirk got out of the war as a staff sergeant in September 1945. He immediately went to college. He used the...

Many of Barney Hajiro's friends died or were wounded in the Vosges Mountains of France. It was sad. The 36th Division...

Joseph Hochadel and his squad started down the road and a German tank began to shell them. It was traumatic and they...

The experience of seeing the kids wanting American candy, and the subsequent revelation of the ship that had passed...

Alexander Jefferson named his plane "Margot" after his classmate's sister. She attended graduation when Jefferson...

Michael Doi did not experience and maltreatment or racism even when he went to the South but his daughter did. After...

Gowan Duffy remembers that they would refer to one German plane as Bed Check Charlie [Annotator's Note: nickname given...

Mary T. Heany was excited to be sent to Nashville [Annotator’s Note: Nashville, Tennessee]. She was asked to go on a...

Walter Barnes was born in New Orleans and grew up on Webster Street in the Uptown neighborhood. Life was good for him....

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