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Howard Warren Stokes is thankful for being alive and for the government paying for his education. He is also happy...

Rudolph C. Miller's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being stuck in a boat in a harbor in Virginia. It was...

Alexander Vraciu wanted to fly fighters. If he had not been given fighters when he was going through training at Corpus...

On 19 February 1945, Arthur L. Eads [Annotator's Note: as a first class shipfitter for the 133rd Naval Construction...

When hostilities ended, Irwin Schneider was sent up to the Philippine Islands. It was in the Philippines that he was...

Tenney did not believe the photo he saw of the Japanese soldier in Hollywood star and started laughing at it. The...

Lloyd Guillory flew aboard an LB-30 [Annotator's Note: the Consolidated LB-30 Liberator cargo aircraft was a variant of...

Wim de Jonge was a member of a Dutch artillery battery liaising with an American artillery unit under Captain Thomas...

Harry Watson went to Newport, Rhode Island [Annotator's Note: for Navy boot camp training], and couldn't understand why...

Robert L. Donovan boarded a troop transport to go to Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea. The infantry landed ahead of them. As...

Louis John Walter was first assigned to the SS James Buchanan [Annotator's Note: as a seaman in the Merchant Marine]....

Joseph Townsend started to lose his teeth in 1955. The dentist told him that all his teeth were cracked at the ridge....

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