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After the war, Robert Lents hated the Japanese. He said the Australians took over the island on which he had been kept...

Carl Rieman was born in Washington D.C., the only boy of the three children in the family. He lived in the suburbs of...

Daniel Altman’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when his friend was shot on the beach of Normandy [...

Harvey Mittleman and his unit [Annotator's Note: with the 58th Naval Construction Battalion, also known as Seabees] was...

Baptiste was involved in 12 or 14 different battles in the Solomons. They lost heavily on the heavy cruisers like the...

[Annotator's Note: A person appears in the background throughout this segment.] Andrew Petrus was born in Bridgeville,...

Peter Harry went to Berlin, Germany after the war ended. He was again driving a jeep for officers. Harry saw many...

George Miles [Annotator's Note: serving with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] jumped into...

Ray Dennis Irby turned 17 in 1941. He was in the backyard of his home in Meridian [Annotator's Note: Meridian,...

Walter Trauner went through a line and was told he would be in the Army. He wanted to fly. Basic training was on tank...

W. P. “Bill” Allen was assigned to the USS LST-523 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] which hit a mine not far the...

Jumping out [Annotator's Note: breaking out of the Anzio, Italy beachhead] on 4 June 1944, Bryan Compton's division [...

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