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Takea Iguchi was 10 years old when his father was sent to New York to assist the ambassador. They moved to Washington,...

The United States came together in the Second World War, Edward Allesandro said, and he is sure that the soldiers'...

Fred Amram remembers they were changing peoples’ names to Americanize them in 1939. There was a man with a pad and he...

Thomas Murphy talks to high schools about the war. When a young girl asked him which of his medals he was the most...

Louis Frydman reached Auschwitz by train. While only there for five hours, it was his worst experience of the war. He...

Going east to Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Maidanek, or Belzec, Alexander White said, meant going to the gas chambers...

The USS Yarnell (DD-541) first met the enemy, according to Murphy Burke, at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands...

[Annotator's Note: Itka Bloch was sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near Bergen, Germany.] Two of her...

Monroe Scherer was shipped from Saipan to Guam [Annotator's Note: both in the Mariana Islands] for a few days before...

Leslie Aigner and the other living passengers were ordered out of the cattle car [Annotator's Note: upon their arrival...

When the WASPs [Annotator's Note: Women Airforce Service Pilots] first started out, they had to have 200 hours [...

Alice Howie did not get involved in anything in the war effort other than in Arlington, Virginia. She worked for IBM [...

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