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Mort Walker was just getting going in college when he got his draft notice. Walker thought the Army was a great...

Robert Nichols Cresswell left Remagen [Annotator’s Note: as a truck driver in the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion, he...

Olen Grant was born in Benton, Arkansas on 5 April 1923. After his father returned from World War I, he moved to Benton...

Charles Coolidge left Camp Edwards near Boston to go to New York before going overseas. He was at sea for 13 days then...

Frank Biondo was not doing much after the war was over. He took a furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for...

Marvin Raymond Edwards was transferred into the European Air Transport Service around August 1945. Before that, he did...

[Annotator's Note: Edward Nacey was flying for Air Transport Command out of Shanghai, China.] They were involved in a...

Donald Lewis was born in April 1934. In 1939, Lewis was five and on a ship in the middle of the Atlantic. His mother...

Herman Molen spent time in the VA [Annotator's Note: United States Department of Veterans Affairs] hospital in Houston...

Erik Johnsen was a Cadet in the US Merchant Marine and his first ship assignment was the SS Dolly Madison which they...

John Arthur Stege briefly used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944...

Melvin Linkous grew up with his parents and brother on a farm in Virginia. Both boys served in Europe during the war....

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