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John Votrobeck likes to think the war did not change him. The training he went through honed his skills, particularly...

William Wayne and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division]...

William Pierce felt it was his patriotic duty to fight during the Second World War. The Japanese had attacked the...

Julian Trist Bringier McConnell’s boat [Annotator's Note: McConnell served as an officer aboard patrol torpedo boats,...

William Lee Barnes never had occasion to use the G.I. Bill. He had a job waiting for him after he took two weeks off...

Howard Hart was born in Saint Louis in 1938. His father was a mining engineer in the Philippines prior to the war. His...

[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...

Jacob Velfling, Jr. and his unit set out for New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] to board a ship for Europe...

Andrew Leblanc joined the Army because most of his friends were in the Army. He did not pick the Navy because he did...

Robert Cahoon briefly stayed on Biak in the Netherlands East Indies [Annotator's Note: in May 1944, Cahoon left New...

William S. “Bill” Beamish’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when his fiancée came to the railroad station...

Clyde Barnhart was assigned to the 20th Air Force at the Overseas Replacement Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Some of...

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