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Jean D. "JD" Johnson's [Annotator's Note: a radioman on the USS Balao (SS-285)] second patrol scored six hits, severely...

Bernice Williams chose the Marine Corps [Annotator's Note: US Marine Corps Women's Reserve] because she did not want...

It was several weeks before David Flynn got back to the United States. He ended up at St. Albans Hospital in New York...

Harry Watson went to Newport, Rhode Island [Annotator's Note: for Navy boot camp training], and couldn't understand why...

Perry Strait found the training he was given by the Maritime Service [Annotator's Note: United States Maritime Service...

Upon reaching his 18th birthday in October, 1943, Warren Schmitt volunteered for the Army Air Corps. During his initial...

While Dennis Allen Andrews served on the USS Plunger (SS-179) and USS Plaice (SS-390) during World War 2, he...

Frank Hartzell was born in January 1925 in Buffalo, New York. After six months, his family moved to the Philadelphia...

Don Tallon was born in Trenton, New Jersey in August 1924. His family was quite poor. The neighborhood was segmented...

After Willie D. Knippers spent a year in Hawaii, he was shipped to Guam [Annotator’s Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] where...

Walter McNeely was born in St. Paul, Minnesota [Annotator’s Note: in April 1927]. During the Great Depression [...

The Czech survivors of Terezin, according to Ela Weissberger, have much in common and enjoy each other's company....

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