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Brooks group was moved to a permanent camp which was an old French Colonial army camp. It was a nice place and the food...

The bases where Alvin Calendar served were often under attack by the enemy. He spent many a night in an air raid...

The food started getting better during Joseph McGuire's time in India. People would get packages from their families....

Samuel Spector was always hungry in the jungle with Detachment 101. The food that was airdropped would not last long so...

Robert Offenbacher thought he grew up in the Army. The major was tough and a big man. The company drunk took a jeep and...

William Disanza's business lasted over 30 years. The war did not change Disanza drastically. He was in the Civilian...

Shanghai [Annotator's Note: Shanghai, China] had been a big military base for the Japanese. Joel Varner went into the...

Marshall Burnett boarded a train at Grand Central Station [Annotator's Note: in New York, New York] bound for Meridian...

Gus Gikas and his unit spent six weeks in North Africa, mainly in training exercises simulating shipboard problems that...

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

Edward Moore Penick, a pilot in the Army Air Corps, was sent overseas to Sichuan and Guilin, China as part of the 21st...

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...

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