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It took about six months for Frank Lombardo to be discharged in the United States. Lombardo felt he was a lucky man...

After Frances Tunnell Carter taught one session as a schoolteacher from 1942 to 1943, she moved to Birmingham, Alabama...

Larry Engmann was born in February 1925 and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. He was one of six children. However, he lost...

The most dangerous time William Blackwood can remember during his service was when he was in London during the V-1 and...

Joseph Massey returned to the United States aboard the SS Samuel Ashe. On the third day of the trip they ran into a...

Thomas Edgar Morgan, Sr. was assigned to the 1st Marine Division (Reinforced) and took part in the Battle of Midway....

While on a transport ship, Wayne McKinnon Gilmore was on crow's nest duty [Annotator's Note: the crow's nest is a...

Frank H. O'Leary and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division]...

Heading east and north into Germany, Gordon Higgins' 7th Army was flanked on either side by the French Army and Patton’...

George Colburn shipped out on the USS Rochambeau (AP-63), which was the same ship that Jack Kennedy [Annotator’s Note:...

Martin Sherbecoe was born in 1920 in Stamford, Connecticut. His father was a skilled mechanic and from a very early age...

At San Diego [Annotator's Note: Naval Medical Center San Diego, California], Amelia Taylor was out shopping when she...

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