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Walter Alan Bowsher, Jr. was born in Fort Riley, Kansas. His father was in the Army chasing Poncho Villa at the time....

At 11 years in the Navy, Randall Edwards decided to make a career of the military. In 1946, he had an unfortunate...

Robert Perry did his Navy boot camp in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California]. He was then sent to...

Charles Martin was at the hospital when the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: 15 August 1945]. He found out that...

The next morning Alexander Vraciu and the other guerillas headed north up the national highway. They took a bugler and...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Keller served in the Army as the company commander of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 148th...

Robert M. Solomon was on deck when they got a submarine. He had to hold on, or he would have gone overboard when the...

Charles Chartier was sent to a replacement depot in Korea. He joined the 63rd Infantry [Annotator’s Note: 63rd Infantry...

William Winter agrees with the interviewer's statement that many black veterans felt more freedom in the Army than they...

Allen Horton was called back to Navy headquarters in New York to pick up a Silver Star. The citation was for his work...

The first board Tyler went before was the Roberts Commission. He also went before army and navy boards. The boards were...

Jimmie Dyer entered the service in March 1944 after making a deal with his mother to finish high school. He was sworn...

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