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Agnes Vertes had a two year old cousin murdered during the Holocaust. The little girl's mother and Vertes' grandmother...

Howard T. Maki was born in May 1925 and grew up in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. His parents were from Finland. Maki...

David Oreck was in Minneapolis, Minnesota when he heard of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He and many others had never...

James Lovell's next mission was Gemini XII. This mission scheduled to be shorter than his last 14 day excursion and was...

Roy Creek remembers the chaos at Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June...

Joseph Massey was born in September 1925 in Argo, Alabama. He had five brothers and he was the youngest. There were...

Hillman James Prestridge partook in the biggest operation ever [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of...

After a psychological exam and basic training at Fort McClellan in Anniston, Alabama, Bernard Hillenbrand was selected...

Rosamund Naylor was at home listening to the radio when she heard the speech about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Day...

Melvin Munch would have been part of the invasion force for assaulting the Japanese home islands. The atomic bombs kept...

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

John Kerner was assigned close to the front in a battalion aid station [Annotator's Note: 110th Medical Battalion, 35th...

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