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Once the United States entered World War 2, Adelaide Benjamin followed the progress of the war in a number of ways but...

Rothacker Smith attended North High School in Detroit, Michigan after his family moved back to the city from the...

It was amazing to Harold Ward to see how quickly they dumped stuff after the war was over. They were heading back to...

Carl Landwehr was born in 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His family never had a lot of money, but they never really...

Katherine Croft was born in 1939 in Bluefield, West Virginia. Her father worked there briefly as an architect, and then...

Victor K. Carman was happy to be assigned to his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Cabot (CVL-28)]. Some sailors were sent to...

Gabriel Spinelli began his active duty in March 1943. His basic training took place in Sacramento at a facility that...

Burton Johnson had been in the service for three years when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: on...

David Oreck enlisted in the US Army Air Forces in 1942 after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He wanted to fly in the Air...

Donald (Don) Malarkey tried to get into the Marine Corps right after the attack on Pearl Harbor but was turned down...

Clarence Schilperoot took a train ride from his point of enlistment in Seattle to San Diego. He was awed in seeing the...

George Haines was top in points and could go home or stay near the war's end. He went to Matsuyama, Shikoku, Japan for...

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