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Paul Sparacino found out about atomic veterans [Annotator's Note: atomic veteran; any veteran who, as part of his or...

Crump and the Chief Engineer had done some work when the seas were calm. The Chief Engineer felt that there was a...

Walter Bank's family lived on a small farm, and wasn't greatly affected by the Great Depression. They never talked...

Fred Gemmel is proud to have served on the Laffey [Annotator's Note: the USS Laffey (DD-724)]. He did not realize it...

Clyde Barnhart was born in July 1923 in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. He served in the Army Air Corps [Annotator's Note...

Harold C. Cook was born in Beaver, Pennsylvania. His father produced milk and ice cream on his dairy farm. Cook...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Yusen served in the Navy as a gunner aboard the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413). The Samuel B....

James W. Metcalf’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was flying in combat and the chance of not making it back....

Olaf Rose recalled having served under three different skippers on the PT-171 [Annotator's Note: PT-171, Motor Torpedo...

After the war, Robert Perry found employment as a painter and as a lumber yard worker. He never used the G.I. Bill [...

Frank V. Tarkington was fortunate to have a mild and unexcitable experience in the war. He got a break by having...

William Earl Gast and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company A, 743rd Tank Battalion, 30th Infantry Division] were on a...

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