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Gretchen Wronka’s father, Loren Hintz, was killed in action while serving in the Army Air Corps during World War 2. Her...

Calvin Moret was in advance training ready room awaiting instructions for his mission. He was there with another...

Moise S. Steeg, Jr. did not want to be in the infantry. He got in at a fortunate time when bases were being built for...

When the war ended, they shot all the ammunition to celebrate. Rita Hymel thought that was stupid and told her husband...

At the conclusion of World War 2, there were celebrations, but Thomas W. Gillette did not participate because he had...

Frank Ragazzi was born in May 1920 in New York City, New York, one of two surviving children of a Metropolitan Opera...

James Jeter was born in Jetertown, Louisiana [Annotator’s Note: near Leesville, Louisiana]. It was a small settlement...

When Belisario de Jesus "Bel" Flores got out of the Army, he still had a dream of being an officer. There was a...

[Annotator's Note: Guy Grenny was stationed at the Naval Air Station in San Diego, California.] Grenny served food and...

Lydia Grant witnessed the attack on the American facilities at Pearl Harbor firsthand. The Japanese strafed the...

Lorraine Doroff's most memorable experience of World War 2 is signing up and training [Annotator's Note: with the...

Joseph “Joe” Maynard went to Jacksonville, Florida for aviation school for three months. When he finished school, he...

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