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Lester Shapiro was born in October 1921 in Rochester, New York. He went as a walk-on for a scholarship at the...

Courtland Claus remembers his cousin dropped by for a military visit. The radio was on in the next room over. They...

McNeil reported to Fort Belvoir [Annotator's Note: Fort Belvoir, Virginia] but that was too close to Washington D.C....

John Alison's departure from Burma occurred when he was behind enemy lines. He left in a damaged RAF [Annotator's Note...

Joseph McGuire was born in 1919 and the first few years of his life were lived in abject poverty. He used a local creek...

John Hever never saw any Japanese soldiers until after the war was over. They had no weapons, and were walking around...

Herbert Gross was born in March 1917. He served in the 375th Squadron of the 308th Heavy Bomb Group of the Fourteenth...

Harold Daniel Snyder's most memorable experience was the closest he came to being knocked off [Annotator's Note: as a...

One of Crump’s friends was on watch on a ship that was torpedoed. Crump’s convoy had about 35 percent casualties. The...

Gate Tate knew he would be drafted so he volunteered in order to be able to select the branch that he would serve in....

Marshall Burnett was born in Meridian, Mississippi in November 1925. He attended Marion Park Elementary School, Kate...

Joseph Silvia thought the caste system in India was odd. The Americans lived like kings compared to the British there....

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