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John Nicholas fought in World War 2 because the guys before him had signed up so he had to do so also. He had to fight...

Erik Johnsen, a Cadet in the US Merchant Marine says that New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 1920s was active with all...

Richard O'Kane gave William Leibold a nice 35mm camera. O’Kane snuck it in the trunk of Leibold's car one day during a...

Emmett Guderian was told he would not be able to go home before shipping out overseas. [Annotator's Note: Guderian...

In 1940, Randall Edwards boarded the submarine tender USS Canopus (AS-9) in Tsingtao, China. The Canopus was a "mother...

Eugene Tarrant went to join the military when he was 18. He was in good shape, about 175 pounds. A sergeant asked him...

There were a lot of events that did not make a lasting impression on Crain. He cannot recall the troops he brought in...

Emiline Ann Bourgeois [Annotator's Note: a US Army Nurse aboard the USAHS Blanche F. Sigman] treated young men and they...

Emil Schoonejans volunteered for service in the Navy. He originally wanted to go into the air force. He and a buddy...

During the surrender, James Bollich destroyed his weapons and threw them into the water. When he was falling back, he...

Ernest Cowell took a train from Fort Mason, California [Annotator's Note: in San Francisco, California], to Fort Lewis...

While he was stationed at Camp Maui, situated on an extinct volcano, Steve McMurray said some of the units trained on...

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