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Edward F. Kent and his unit [Annotator’s Note: 602nd Field Artillery Battalion (Pack)] were selected to go to Italy...

Richard Baile and other airmen who took part in the nighttime firebombing raid on Tokyo still have reunions. At one the...

Willard Ashford was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in May 1928. His family was mostly poverty-ridden due to the Great...

Dupuy recalls a certain sense of invincibility that stayed with him. He knew death was around every corner but he kept...

Hunger and thirst tormented Cleatus Lebow and his fellow shipmates from the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) who were stranded...

Richard Miralles was born in July 1924 in Anderson, California. He was an orphan. His parents separated. He lived with...

Murphy Burke had a lot of respect for the Japanese; he thought they were good soldiers, and did their job with the few...

Leisey's father was a railroad worker and his mother was a garment worker. They survived the Great Depression by...

The first glimpse Aaron Baumgarten had of Alaska was from the air, and he was impressed with its pristine vastness....

Henry Bourgeois went to work in the aerospace industry for Singer as a sales engineer. He was then made a planner and...

Howard Hart saw how difficult it was to survive in the internment camps. In order to prevent the Japanese from taking...

Bill Norberg took advantage of the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944...

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