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Nick Cristiano has no idea where his Japanese prison guards went when the war ended. A whole new crew came in. The new...

[Annotator's Note: Fergus Van Wart served in the Navy as coxswain aboard the USS Bergen (APA-150).] Van Wart brought...

[Annotator's Note: William Cart was a student at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in Charleston,...

That was the end of combat for Harold DeForest. After DeForest got out of the hospital he was supposed to go back to...

After the war, James Smith had a hard time adjusting to civilian life. He got a job before he was even discharged from...

Otis Arthur Slack was on Amchitka [Annotator's Note: Amchitka Island, Alaska] when the Japanese withdrew [Annotator's...

William Roy was on the USS Yorktown [Annotator's Note: CV-5] when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The Yorktown was at Pier 7...

John W. Snyder was born in March 1926 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Growing up, Snyder's family was poor. However, because...

Thomas Francis Schicker and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine...

Otis Kight had a 30 year career in the Navy. He remembers near the end of boot camp when he was given liberty [...

Gerald Francis "Jerry" Coleman [Annotator's Note: a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot with Marine Scout-Bomber...

James McEnery thinks it is important to study all wars as he thinks each one has something to teach people. McEnery...

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