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Isabella Karle heard on the radio that the atom bomb had been dropped. At first she was amazed that it actually worked...

After combat on Tinian ended and the island was secured, Ira Schilling was sent to Hawaii. First, however, he reported...

Robert Knudson was born in January 1925 in Mason City, Iowa. His father was a successful greenhouse owner, and even...

Kaliste Joseph Saloom, Jr. was born in Lafayette, Louisiana on in May 1919. Prior to the war, Saloom attended college...

Carl Beck joined the Army at 17 in November 1942. He was born in 1925. He had been working with his father during the...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Theodore Finkbeiner was the middle child between a brother and sister. He had just started Northeast Junior College [...

Tom Quigley grew up playing polo and riding horses and initially volunteered to serve with the cavalry in the army....

Harry George Paege, Junior had his 21st birthday in the service. He was a bugler. He got a letter that said his mother...

Robert Mayes was born in Middlesboro, Kentucky in September 1923. He graduated from high school in 1941. He maintained...

Adolph Wilson was in college when he heard about Pearl Harbor. At 18 years old, he was playing football and running...

[Annotator's Note: Walter Jacobs served in the Army as a squad leader in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 306th Infantry...

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