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Walter Bowsher made his first arrest while he was in the Army. He was serving as a temporary military policeman when he...

John H. Cole looked up and saw a bomb coming toward him [Annotator's Note: while on Okinawa, Japan]. It tumbled to the...

Clarence Robert Duff does not believe World War 2 changed him. It made him realize how green he was. He learned a lot...

Wallace Spencer was in Sampson, New York [Annotator's Note: Naval Training Station Sampson in Sampson, New York] for a...

Francis Bucher was training pilots for night flying [Annotator's Note: at Naval Air Station Ellyson Field, Pensacola,...

William Barnes got orders to get off at Bougainville. He was ordered to get back to the United States the best way he...

Otis Kight and others volunteered for the salvage party to return to Yorktown [Annotator's Note: the USS Yorktown (CV-5...

After 13 months in occupied Japan, Clark Wackerman was able to return home. The return home was much worse than the...

Adolfo V. Celaya first encountered a man laying on his back [Annotator’s Note: while in the Pacific Ocean after the...

Joseph A. Vater was born in March 1917, in Pittsburgh [Annotator's Note: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]. He was drafted into...

After the war, James Allen lost contact with many of his friends from the war. He was busy with college and did not...

James Gaffney felt the Okinawan civilians were glad to see the Americans. They hung around the camp all the time. They...

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