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John Geiger [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 6th Army Special Reconnaissance Unit, known as the Alamo Scouts] did...

Edward F. Kent was born in November 1917 and grew up with one older sister. During the Great Depression [Annotator's...

Kenneth Killilea feels strongly that it is important to continue to study World War 2. It is essential that young...

James Smith almost starved to death with only three days rations on his back. They were not organic to the 1st Marine...

Kenneth Beard's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being a switchboard operator. He chose to serve because he...

Harold Whitaker went overseas in 1949. He was at Johnson Air Force Base in Japan when the Korean War began. After the...

Joseph Daquarna enlisted in early 1945 and went to boot camp in San Diego. Afterward, he was assigned to a submarine...

Formosa [Annotator's Note: Republic of Formosa; present day Taiwan] had not been hit and was going to be hit for the...

Charles Wesley Borders retired from the United States Air Force on 1 September 1971. He got to be a Wing Commander...

Charles “Chuck” Wisher thought the B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber] was the...

[Annotator's Note: Someone off camera interjects at various points.] As his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Suwannee (...

William Roy was on the USS Yorktown [Annotator's Note: CV-5] when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The Yorktown was at Pier 7...

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