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After his last trip on a ship, John Scott Campbell got married. They were married for 46 years. Jobs were hard. The...

Austeen Bice’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was in Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion...

William Dabney and his fellow soldiers tried to enjoy themselves whenever they could. They would engage in activities...

Alois Kopp volunteered to go on the USS Houston (CA-30) in 1939 for deployment overseas. The ship was stationed in...

[Annotator's Note: Joseph Lesniewski served in the Army as a paratrooper in Company E, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute...

James "Jim" L. Brooks [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the 307th Fighter Squadron, 31st Fighter Group, 15th Air Force]...

Robert Bueker [Annotator's Note: while a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft I in Barth, Germany] was treated quite well by...

Howard Chandler went to visit his relatives about 40 kilometers away after the 1939 school year ended. [Annotator's...

Z. Anthony Kruszewski remembers the houses were collapsing. After two weeks they no longer had food for the Warsaw...

One of Clarence Anderson's men came across a German pilot shooting at men in parachutes. He shot the German down and...

For Samuel Jenkins, returning to the United States was much easier than going to Europe. He just laid in his bunk and...

Robert Eshback went overseas on the USS Wakefield (AP-21), a troop transport ship that traveled alone, and he was...

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