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Robert Brant wanted to be transferred to new duties on an escort ship going to the Philippines after spending 11 months...

Walter Knapps was born in February 1921 in New Roads, Louisiana. His mother died in a house fire when he was six years...

Stanley Richard Williams was born in May 1926 in Wheeling, West Virginia. He grew up on Wheeling Island with his...

Arthur Lee was born in June 1921 in Abbeville, Louisiana, the second of five children. When he was two years old, the...

Randolph Daniel landed on Wake Island after the bombs dropped on Japan in August [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons...

They had a couple of rainy days in April [Annotator's Note: April 1945] but the rains got heavy after Lazarick left. He...

Frederick Haack was flying off the coast of Taiwan [Annotator's Note: with the 68th Troop Carrier Squadron, 433rd Troop...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Houston served in the US Marine Corps as a rifleman in 3rd Platoon, Company G, 2nd Battalion,...

John E. Johnson fought in World War 2 because he had to. He was drafted. Johnson acknowledges the war changed his life...

Carl Trim did not find it hard to adjust to civilian life. He attended college, while his wife worked. In 1948, Trim...

Frederick Jenkins was an engineer on a whale boat when the war ended. They left the ship as the she went out on picket...

Nimocks Foyle Ladner thinks that World War 2 does not mean much to the younger generations. It is only history to them...

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