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Alex Lopez was already out of the Army when he read that Hermann Goering had committed suicide, and he thought what...

James T. Lindsey served with the Merchant Marines [Annotator’s Note: on the SS Percy E. Foxworth] during World War 2....

William Hendren remembers everybody being pleased when V-E Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945]...

Each campaign that Richard Scholl took part in in the Philippines took about two weeks to clear out completely. The...

Lowell Hughes was part of the invasion of Anzio, Italy. German mortars and artillery were almost nonstop. The four...

Roland Lehker discharged from the Marine Corp at Corpus Christie at the end of World War 2. Lehker reflected on the...

John Bellecci was born in September 1923 in Martinez, California. He grew up there and was the student body president...

Lester Hecht returned to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] on a Coast Guard boat. He was sent...

Continuing his sequence of experiences, John Laster described a personal injury that was not the consequence of combat...

When Willie Wesley Thompson volunteered for the service, the Navy told him he did not have to go because he had bad...

Carey Suratt trained at Great Lakes, Illinois. Boot camp lasted five weeks. He enjoyed boot camp. The trainees learned...

While Benjamin Bederson's buddies were being deployed overseas, he was being interviewed by three "obvious scientists"...

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