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Keith Kiefer was born in January 1957 in Longview, Texas. In school, he did not get taught about World War 2 until...

Walter Bud Gafford was born in April 1920. He joined the United States Navy in March 1941 so that he could see the...

Chuck was born in Long Island, New York in 1917. He believes that things were going better during the Great Depression...

The Korean War [Annotator's Note: 1950 through 1953] broke out in June 1950 and James Shelton Scales did not realize he...

Arnold A. Mirsky was born in November 1918 and was born in Newark, New Jersey. His parents were immigrants of Russia...

Frank M. Heuer Sr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in October 1923. He grew up with three sisters and one brother....

Returning to the Pacific on the USS Brown (DD-546), John Cassidy participated in the invasion of Okinawa. He was there...

Lester Caplan's decision to serve in World War 2 came out of his belief that it was a legitimate war, and America was...

In Norfolk, Claude Shannahan met a WAVE [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service] girl during...

Kenneth Beard's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being a switchboard operator. He chose to serve because he...

Allen Horton had a long leave on Ulithi, where the mail that had been collecting for some time finally reached the...

Edgar Eugene “Gene” Fricker was quickly released from the Navy after the war and attended college on the G.I. Bill [...

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