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Cleveland Peterson was aboard the SS Johnson when he heard about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. They had been...

John Hever was born in 1924 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He was the second of four children and the only boy....

Lester Shapiro left the United States from California. Ninety percent of the men got seasick on the boat. When he left...

McNeil doesn't think that her time in the army changed her life in any way. She was able to see the world.She feels...

Courtland Claus could see buildings just beyond the dock when he arrived in India. He saw a stagecoach going by. It was...

Perry Garten removed wounded troops from the combat zones in his glider. The injured Australians were very stoic but...

Herbert Saylor was drafted shortly after graduating from high school. His father and sister brought Saylor to the train...

While in Calcutta, George Rudloff developed physical activities in which the American soldiers could participate. There...

After flight training [Annotator's Note: in the Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber], Newton Dana was sent to...

Since he was a twin-engine pilot, Joseph McGuire had been told he would be a training pilot but was then reassigned to...

[Annotators Note: Richard Cole served in the USAAF as a pilot flying B-25 Mitchell medium with the 17th Bombardment...

On his return to the United States, Frederick Moore and another guy traveled through Saudi Arabia and Khartoum to Accra...

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