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During the last few days of the war there was very little action. Most of the Germans were figuring out a way to...

Allen Tillery was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1925. He was attending high school in Shreveport when the Japanese...

Wesley Carroll was born in Slidell, Louisiana in 1922. He grew up there, and graduated from high school in 1939, after...

John S. Johnson reveals his thoughts on American POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] during the Korean War who...

J. W. Childs only became close friends with one crewmate while he was in the Navy, and thinks that is the greatest...

Carl Caffarel was born in 1925 in Plaquemines, Louisiana, and grew up in the nearby town of Port Allen, Louisiana. The...

Otis Arthur Slack was born in Canton, Illinois in April 1921. He was raised by his aunt and uncle as his mother was...

Guy Stern had come to Saint Louis, Missouri in 1937 when he was 15 years old to escape Nazi Germany. He tried, but...

Robert Lewter was born Lincoln County, Tennessee in October 1927. His father was a sharecropper. Lewter grew up...

Mildred Loscalzo Vanderpool was born in July 1920 in Queens County, New York. She went to Connecticut College [...

Harry Watson went to Newport, Rhode Island [Annotator's Note: for Navy boot camp training], and couldn't understand why...

In 1944, Roy Stewart was shipped out with the 24th Marine Regiment, although he was not attached to that regiment. They...

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