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Emil Kesselman liked being a civilian and a father, and did not have any ideas of going back in the service [Annotator’...

The USS Yarnell (DD-541) first met the enemy, according to Murphy Burke, at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands...

The next day Ralph Francis Hogan was imprisoned at a compound, the city was attacked. Instead of going in a bomb...

Bruce McCormick was in the military for a long time. A lot of his friends who were soldiers in Korea [Annotator's Note...

Elisabeth Bolster and her husband left Bremerhaven for America. There were four tier bunk beds on the ship. There were...

[Annotator's Note: There is audio feedback noise throughout this clip.] Gilbert H. Howland was born in April 1923 in...

Lauren Swinney picked up words during the war like ersatz which meant a substitute for something. She recalls the pin-...

Philip Sciortino was sent to work at a refrigeration unit in Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Luzon, Philippines] when...

Itka Zygmuntowicz had no information and no idea about the war or world outside of Auschwitz. A girl was there [...

After surviving the bombing of Berlin [Annotator's Note: Berlin was bombed 363 times between 1940 and 1945] as a child...

Yukio Kawamoto does not think he changed too much during the war. He was born in Berkeley [Annotator's Note: Berkley,...

Marvin Martin [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the 3475th Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Company] was sent to a...

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