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Marie Rankart was at a dress shop in Elizabeth, New Jersey buying a dress when she heard the news that the war was over...

Gilbert S. Shawn flew with Jimmy Stewart [Annotator's Note: later US Air Force Brigadier General James "Jimmy" Stewart...

Maurice Zolkower was with them [Annotator’s Note: the 45th Infantry Division] when they received a call from Corps...

Allen Horton had a long leave on Ulithi, where the mail that had been collecting for some time finally reached the...

In October 1942, William S. “Bill” Beamish enlisted in the Army Air Corps and was inducted in San Pedro [Annotator’s...

Wallace Hurley contracted pneumonia during the Battle of the Bulge. He was in the hospital for four days. Following his...

Irving Becker remembers a funny incident as his most memorable event of the war. It involved some comrades and women at...

John Caudle has had a lot of thoughts over the years. Especially when he came home out of the service and did not have...

There was a prisoner of war camp near where James Patterson was stationed [Annotator’s Note: in New Guinea]. They put...

Robert Guitard could tell we were no longer at war when women could buy silk stockings, and everyone could buy butter....

Giles Bacon thinks it is very important that The National World War II Museum exists. History is not being taught well...

Luba Keller was 11 years old when some Nazis abducted her in her hometown of Szydłowiec, Poland. They took her and two...

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