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Connick recalls the atmosphere of New Orleans during the war. He remembers men being replaced by stars in the window [...

Abraham Rosenzweig is proud of his years of service in the Coast Guard. That feeling has grown over the years. World...

David McKinley Blackwell entered the Army at Camp Polk [Annotator's Note: now Fort Polk in Vernon Parish, Louisiana]....

Sterling Cale served in World War 2 because he got caught up in it while he was in the service. While Cale was in...

After the war ended, Virginia Wilterdink had enough of the island climate, and elected to work on the hospital ship USS...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Selwyn Gilmore about a Medal of Honor recipient he knew.] Henry Erwin [...

Gerald Francis "Jerry" Coleman [Annotator's Note: a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot with Marine Scout-Bomber...

In the early summer of 1945, Jack D. Owen [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the USS Colusa (APA-74) as the radar striker]...

Normand F. Gallichant was preparing to hit the beaches of Japan just before the war ended. Defenses in Japan would have...

John Ream gives his account of Huey Newton [Annotator’s Note: the Black Panther Party leader and founder]. The Panthers...

Rob Roy Ratliff was assigned to the communications section of Headquarters, 5th Marine Division. At the time, the 5th...

After he got home, Charles Stix started at the University of Cincinnati [Annotator's Note: Cincinnati, Ohio]...

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