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[Annotator's Note: The video is glitchy in this segment] Walter Louis Beyer served in the Pacific Theater in World War...

William Lutz liked boot camp because he got a rifle. He liked the firing range. He became a gunner after basic training...

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

For the invasion of Japan, Richard Nummer and the American troops were issued wool blankets and green fatigues to fight...

After choosing the US Navy, Stanley John Niec attended boot camp at Naval Station Great Lakes [Annotator's Note: in...

When Keith Renstrom went to Iwo Jima he fought well because the excitement was not there. He functioned better as a...

Morris Semiatin was born in June 1926 in Baltimore, Maryland. He knew in the late 1930s that there was war going on. He...

Harold Ward was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey in April 1921. Ward had the life of a bastard growing up as he was...

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

Byron Herbert Meader received very little military training when he was assigned to the 3462nd Ordnance Medium...

After basic training, Herbert Yudenfriend was sent to Camp Howze in Texas near Dallas [Annotator's Note: Cooke County,...

Charles J. Alvarez Sr.’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when it was announced that the war was over. He...

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