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Adolfo V. Celaya was born in Florence, Arizona in May 1927. He had one brother and two sisters. Celaya was the oldest...

Jack H. Bleuler served with the 822nd Bombardment Squadron, 38th Bombardment Group, 5th Air Force during the war in the...

James Salerno stayed in San Diego for about four or five months. From there they went to Pearl Harbor where they saw...

Arles E. Cole was sent to San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] for naval aptitude testing and training....

William Smith went to the Pacific theater as a Second Lieutenant. He flew from Townsville [Annotator's Note: Townsville...

William Lutz remembers that his unit [Annotator’s Note: 307th Infantry Regiment, 77th Infantry Division] was constantly...

Clayton Fisher thinks that the SBD [Annotator's Note: Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber] was the great equalizer. The...

Don Daniels became friends with men he served with. He only stayed in touch with three or four by exchanging Christmas...

Charles "Chuck" Schmetzer took advantage of the G.I. bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...

Having moored in the harbor at Nagasaki, Japan, Lauren Bruner and some shipmates [Annotator's Note: from the USS...

Soon after returning home, Philip Mayer went to work and did not use the G.I. Bill for school. He became a truck driver...

Robert Lewter was inducted in Georgia. From there he got on a train to Camp Polk, Louisiana [Annotator's Note: now Fort...

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