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After the invasion they left Southern France and returned to Norfolk, Virginia where the men were given a 15 day leave...

Before he got married, Donald Popham tried to enlist, but failed the physical because of his eyesight. His rating was...

They had the Evans floating and had an auxiliary generator running; that meant lights and refrigeration. They were...

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

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

Oscar Culp was based at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii when the war with Japan ended. He remembers the day [Annotator's Note:...

Because of the discrimination in the Army caste system, Francis Resta said he came to really hate the Army. But when...

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

Fredi Van Pelt was born in July 1923 in Alameda, California. She has two sisters. Van Pelt was the baby in the family....

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

Jack A. Gillis was a member of the Army Air Defense observation teams on Hawaii. He was a PFC [Annotator's Note:...

Albert Reale thought the Japanese were miserable people, and seeing the surviving soldiers from Okinawa reinforced his...

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