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Thomas Michael Holt [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] had access to a hidden radio. With the new POWs [Annotator's...

Joseph Hochadel was in combat shortly after patching up the chaplain. Hochadel recalls getting a call about some...

Theodore E. Skinner, Sr. received the Bronze Star [Annotator's Note: the fourth-highest award a United States service...

Alexander Jefferson volunteered for service in order to avoid the draft. If he had been drafted he would have been a...

Michael Doi believes that the war did not change his personality. Doi was an athlete in high school. He was a pole...

Norman Raner enlisted on 18 May 1941. He went to Port Des Moines [Annotator's Note: Port of Des Moines, Iowa] and then...

John Vessey feels there are enormous lessons, not only military and strategic, but political lessons that we as a...

Thomas W. Stevenson Jr. believes there should be institutions like the National WWII Museum [Annotator's Note: The...

Albert Porche went into the service after Pearl Harbor was attacked. The armed forces were trying to recruit as many...

Clifford Smith was at home reading a comic book and listening to the radio on 7 December 1941 when the news of the...

When Walter Barnes got back to the United States they had to get to their homes on their own. A guy he served with had...

Anna Maria Giamberardino was born in May 1931 in Ventimiglia, Italy, near France. Her father worked for the railroad,...

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