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Jesse Schraub served in the Army as a mortar man in Company A of the 91st Chemical Mortar Battalion and took part in...

Another torpedo came and hit the USS California [Annotators Note: during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor]. Another...

Harry Bell could not believe that they were surrendering. They had not fired a shot since leaving the front lines. The...

[Annotator's Note: Leroy Redmond served in the Army as a tank crewman in Combat Command A, 14th Armored Division and...

On 8 May 1945, the war ended, and R.M. Wilkes was told to stand down. After a few weeks, he was sent to Czechoslovakia...

Rita Brandes was in the British Zone of Occupation after the war. Most clothing came from the United States. She had a...

Paul Bosworth was sent to Flagstaff, Arizona for training. He started shooting up all of the beautiful cactuses there....

Following basic training and being part of a cadre at Fort Benning [Annotator’s Note: Fort Benning, Georgia], Joseph...

[Annotators Note: Warren Schmitt was a forward observer in Battery B, 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion.]...

Vernon Wold was infantry in World War 2 and a medic in Korea [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 1950 to 1953]. He went to...

Martin J. Anschau enlisted in July [Annotator’s Note: July 1943]. He was sworn in in June 1943. He got used to boot...

Howard Genrich believes that his generation had more sense of duty to the country. World War 2 brought America out of...

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