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Arthur Smith was discharged in May 1946 at Great Lakes [Annotator's Note: Naval Station Great Lakes in North Chicago,...

George McGovern had one his buddies took him up in a plane to see if he could still fly a few years ago. He was able to...

John McCarthy was on a regular enlistment and not a draftee, so he did not automatically get out when the war was over...

Adolph Wilson fought through some of the worse jungles on Bougainville. It had everything imaginable. It rained every...

[Annotator's Note: There is background noise throughout this clip.] Jack Sinise had heard about the B-17 [Annotator's...

Vernon Grimes wanted to protect his rank, so he joined the Reserves after the war and was called up for the Korean War...

Henry Freedman reported to Fort Devens, Massachusetts after receiving his draft notice. He was then sent to Camp...

Walter Bud Gafford feels many young people do not know about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on...

In the early part of 1944, Irvin C. Klimas and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Thompson (DD-627)] were put in a...

Four days prior to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

In August 1942, Robert Joseph Blatnik boarded the Queen Mary [Annotator's Note: RMS Queen Mary] bound for England. The...

William E. Byrnes went overseas to Southern France. Sunken ships littered the harbor as the men debarked onto the shore...

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