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Philip Schweitzer's first time away from home was his trip to basic training. Schweitzer thinks that at the time, the...

Following VE-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945], Marvin Sussman was stationed in the town of...

William Epperson received two Purple Hearts for being wounded. Epperson felt strongly that women in the service would...

Mary R. Stricklan's uniform [Annotator's Note: in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) then Women's Army Corps (WAC...

Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams was in high school in 1941 in Ozona [Annotator's Note: Ozona, Texas]. They were shocked [...

Mildred Bonvillian Aupied was born in Bayou Black near Houma in Terrebonne Parish [Annotator’s Note: south of New...

Philemon Andrews Saint Amant was one of the first to arrive at the German lines [Annotator's Note: as a member of the...

When Mildred Vanderpool received her orders to New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in May [Annotator...

Philip Mayer had been in the Pacific for 30 months and was in the assault wave on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa,...

Mary Edwards met Harry Truman [Annotator's Note: President Harry S. Truman] when he was a congressman in charge of the...

Thomas Houdek was liberated and sent to Riesa, Germany where he spent several weeks waiting for American troops to...

George Allen says he was part of something that worked out well. He was worried that we [Annotator's Note: the United...

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